Arts & Culture

Brooklyn Bridge Park: the beach at Main Street Park, in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge

Montage | July-August 2024

A Democratic Landscape

Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park

Book cover for "The Don't Represent Us"

Books & Literary Life |

Medicine for an Ailing Democracy

How to reform voting and elections in the United States to create a representative democracy

by Jonathan Shaw

Photograph of Jimmy Hoffa and Chuckie O’Brien near the federal courthouse, March 1, 1964

Montage | November-December 2019

Hoffa and Harvard Law

A new look at “one of the greatest unsolved crimes in American history”

Photograph of worker between two enormously high stacked bookshelves at the Harvard Depository

Montage | November-December 2019

“The Luckiest Books”

A visit to the Harvard Depository

An image of branching red seaweed against a dark-blue background

Montage | November-December 2019

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Photograph of President Donald Trump and Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio

Montage | November-December 2019

Forgive, but Don’t Forget

…and don’t always forgive

by Lincoln Caplan

Montage | November-December 2019

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Photograph of David Damrosch

Features | September-October 2019

A World of Literature

David Damrosch’s literary global reach

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Painted portrait of Adella Hunt Logan

Features | September-October 2019

Adella Hunt Logan

Brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915

by Adele Logan Ale...

Photo of a defunct Saturn dealership

Montage | September-October 2019

Things Fell Apart

“The rise of the deal and the decline of the American dream”

An illustration depicting the loss of mental functioning

Montage | September-October 2019

“Find My Real Husband”

A medical anthropologist cares for his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife.