Sara Houghteling’s first novel, Pictures at an Exhibition, tells the story of a young man who searches post-war Paris for both his lost love and his father’s stolen art collection.
An editorial sampling of recent books with Harvard connections
Pan Tianshu reviews Leslie Chang’s new book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
In this excerpt from her new book, Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture, Cammy Brothers discusses how the artist demonstrated the possibility for architecture to be a vehicle for the imagination equal to painting or sculpture.
James Cuno reviews Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures, by Cynthia Saltzman
Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre.
Harvard professor Lewis Lockwood and the Julliard String Quartet have collaborated on Inside Beethoven’s Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation…
Mary Jo Salter keeps her own (and others’) poetry alive…
Recent books with Harvard connections…
Screenwriter turned novelist Eric Lerner ’71 finds his voice…
Excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 memoir The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball…
Yeltsin: A Life, by Timothy J. Colton, Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies (Basic Books, $35). A monumental biography of the…
Anthony Lewis’s Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment offers a lucid and engaging overview of American…
We are all “medical citizens,” embedded as potential or actual patients, with physicians, in a system of social, moral, and…
Nearly 50 years after declaring their independence, Americans were electrified by the triumphant return of the Marquis de Lafayette, eager to…
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