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A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
How humans hybridize their civilizations
by Adam Kirsch
Restored to Nature
Landscape architect Mikyoung Kim’s healing arts
by Lydialyle Gibson
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Raising Her Voice
Singer-songwriter Reid Parsons on the irreplaceable instrument
by Lydialyle Gibson
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
The Nature of Archives
Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants
by Salomé Gómez-Upegui
Where We Went Wrong
A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century
Straight Lines and Odd Angles
Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
by Lydialyle Gibson
Sargent’s Other Sides
A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.
by Nancy Walecki