Montage
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Music and Language, Reconciled
Matthew Aucoin on opera
by Thomas Forrest Kelly
A Wildlife Painter's Fantastic Beasts
Bradley Scott Davis's conservation-minded artwork
by Lydialyle Gibson
Open Book
Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace
Damage and Repair
Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Thinking Straight
Steven Pinker on rationality
From Punk to the Silver Screen
The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77
by Nicolas Rapold
War, Misremembered
Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.
Border Crossing
Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
by Nancy Walecki
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
A Democracy of Opportunity
Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.
by Lincoln Caplan