Montage
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Pinned in Memory
Susan Rubin Suleiman’s memoir of a life in Nazi Hungary—and after
Finding the Movie
Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Off the Shelf
In love with Harvard Square, the invention of ICUs, Seamus Heaney
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
by Bailey Trela
The Modern World Reconceived
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”
by J. Bradford Delong
Attuned to Pianos
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
by Lydialyle Gibson
Emily Dickinson—Dashed
Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
From War Zones to the North Shore
A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
by Lydialyle Gibson
Made You Look
Magician-turned-designer-turned sculptor Dan Droz
by Nancy Walecki