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A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Uses—and Abuses—of Austerity
Economists revisit an unsettled economic policy.
by Idrees Kahloon
Darkness Visible
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
by Jennifer Gersten
Medicine Minus Mythmaking
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Coming Apart Together
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Weight of Scale
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Devil and Philip Johnson
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
True Lies
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
by Casey N. Cep