Books & Literary Life
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Educational Ascent
Ruth Simmons on her ascent from sharecropper’s daughter to scholar
Tom Hyry
What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism
by Max J. Krupnick
Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence
Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
How Revolutions Happen
Robert Darnton on the origins of the French Revolutionary temperament
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012
by Jennifer Burns
Black Students Speak
Jarvis Givens on two centuries of African American education
by Lydialyle Gibson
The New Little Magazines
Keeping literature and long-form journalism alive
by Nancy Walecki
Journey into Quabbin Reservoir’s Hidden Past
Rambling around the Quabbin Reservoir
by Nell Porter-Brown
Speaking Volumes
Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection
by Nell Porter-Brown