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Brooklyn Bridge Park: the beach at Main Street Park, in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge

Montage | July-August 2024

A Democratic Landscape

Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park

Historic images of Francis Drake and Elizabeth I, who feature in a new book by Laurence Bergreen

Montage | March-April 2021

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Montage | March-April 2021

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Photo of a cheerleader group composed of elderly women, all in red tops and white skirts, with pompoms

Montage | March-April 2021

When Fantasy Isn’t Enough

Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.

by Alex Huls

Shelby Meyerhoff's photographic self-portrait of her head and shoulders transformed with body paints into a blue-ringed octopus

Montage | January-February 2021

“We’re All Animals”

Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting

by Lydialyle Gibson

Archival photograph of John F. Kennedy as an undergraduate, circa 1939, studying papers

Montage | January-February 2021

The World-Wise JFK

An unusual senior thesis

Producer Jeff Schaffer sits between star Larry David (left) and another cast member on the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” set.

Montage | January-February 2021

“Magical Digressions”

TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny

by Stuart Miller

Photograph of a giant cuttlefish, “Sepia apama,” at Cabbage Tree Bay, Australia: among Peter Godfrey-Smith’s subjects for his research on cognition

Montage | January-February 2021

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Portrait of Harvard Law School dean—and perfectionist—Ezra Thayer circa 1910, who found the school’s dire finances overwhelming.

Montage | January-February 2021

Grinding Out Lawyers—by Grinding Down Students

The making of the modern Harvard Law School

by Lincoln Caplan

An illustration of social capital, the subject of the book being reviewed, in the form of an individual versus a group working together

Montage | November-December 2020

Yearning for an Upswing

In search of optimism, a sweeping interpretation of American social history

by Idrees Kahloon

Black and white photo of a group of Vietnamese children, titled “Schoolchildren Playing Cards”

Montage | November-December 2020

Finding Other Streets

Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew

by Dan Kelly