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
Fugitive Pedagogy
Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Open Book
Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Music and Language, Reconciled
Matthew Aucoin on opera
by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Looking for the Real Stan Lee
Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur
by Dan Kelly
A Democracy of Opportunity
Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.
by Lincoln Caplan
Notes on Doctoring
Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine
by Lydialyle Gibson
Reporting, with an M.B.A.
Charles Duhigg unpacks how individuals and organizations work at war, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley
by Jonathan Shaw
The Poet of Old Age
Donald Hall, chronicler of life
by Adam Kirsch
Thinking Straight
Steven Pinker on rationality