Books & Literary Life
Spellbound on Stage
Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Conservative
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s journey through American decadence and upheaval
by Lydialyle Gibson
Lorenzo Tañada
Brief life of a Philippine patriot: 1898-1992
by Christopher Capozzola
Finding Other Streets
Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew
by Dan Kelly
“To Break Our Own Rules”
Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers
by Lydialyle Gibson
In a Farmer’s Long Beard
Miriam Udel’s passion for children and Yiddish children’s literature
Family History
A German American scholar is unsettled by an ancestor’s secret.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Yearning for an Upswing
In search of optimism, a sweeping interpretation of American social history
by Idrees Kahloon
Artful Gifts
Holiday gifts that support the arts
by Nell Porter Brown