Books & Literary Life
A New Chapter for Harvard Arts
The Office for the Arts turns 50, and its longtime director steps down.
by Lydialyle Gibson
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
Getting Close, in Selma
Acting at a moment of conscience
by Drew Gilpin Faust
State-Sponsored Discrimination
The role of zoing law and housing in making America more unequal—and what to do about it
The Men Who Can’t Be Saved
Novelist Ben Purkert’s playfully serious look at masculinity
by Stuart Miller
Off the Shelf
Recent books on camping outdoors, economic opportunity, the women of NOW, and more
Life’s Blueprints
The development of developmental biology
by Jonathan Shaw