Arts & Culture
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Making the Public Record Public
Harvard legal database released
by Max J. Krupnick
The Essential Educator for His Time
A life of Princeton’s Bill Bowen
by Howard Gardner
Spellbound on Stage
Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Happy Warrior Redux
Hubert Humphrey’s liberalism reconsidered
A Dogged Observer
Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.
by Max J. Krupnick
Off the Shelf
Revolutionizing French fashion, early Chinese writing, and more
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.
by Craig Lambert
Fictions about the Forces Driving Migration
Glenda Carpio on the new migration narrative
by Nina Pasquini
Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70
Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel
by Lydialyle Gibson
No Sleepy Coastal Town
Visiting Portsmouth in winter
by Nell Porter Brown