Arts & Culture
Off the Shelf
Painting with Monet, birding with Thoreau, and other recent books
A Democracy of Opportunity
Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.
by Lincoln Caplan
Notes on Doctoring
Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine
by Lydialyle Gibson
Reporting, with an M.B.A.
Charles Duhigg unpacks how individuals and organizations work at war, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley
by Jonathan Shaw
The Poet of Old Age
Donald Hall, chronicler of life
by Adam Kirsch
Thinking Straight
Steven Pinker on rationality
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
Houghton Library Features Children’s Books in Opening Exhibit
“Animals Are Us” contextualizes Houghton’s new treasures.
by Jacob Sweet
“I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak”
Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
by Lily Scherlis