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A Democratic Landscape

Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park

An Empiricist on Art

Unpacking “what art does to us”

Funny Because It’s True

Showrunner David Mandel guides the final season of Veep—and finds himself politicized.

by S.I. Rosenbaum

The Memorable Eccentric

An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Chapter and Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Chapter and Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

“Here and Then Gone”

Bess Wohl writes plays from an actor’s perspective.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Uses—and Abuses—of Austerity

Economists revisit an unsettled economic policy.

by Idrees Kahloon

Grace Notes

Why the vineyards of New York called Kelby Russell home

by Erick Trickey