Books & Literary Life
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Attention to Detail
Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.
by Lydialyle Gibson
“Shoddy”: The Noun
“From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags”—a surprising account of scrap
Rather Psychologically Peculiar
Reinterpreting the distinctive psychology of the human West
A Lone Star Saga
Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Curator of American Culture
Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Write It!
This Boston conference offers a virtual writing retreat.
by Nell Porter-Brown
“A Prayer for Our Country”
Author Isabel Wilkerson kicks off a Harvard speaker series on storytelling and public health.
by Lydialyle Gibson
First-Gen Inclusion and Belonging
Rachel Gable’s research on helping first-generation and low-income students succeed at elite colleges
by John S. Rosenberg