Books & Literary Life
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100
The first century of the Chinese Communist Party—and what impends
Open Book: The Case for Commitment
Pete Davis expands on his Commencement address.
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
The founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner profiled
by Juliet Isselbacher
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Not Just “Office Helpers”
From a huge new book on the history of information, an excerpt on the role of secretaries
“Like Driving at Night”
Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel
by Dan Kelly
Transitions Gradual and Cataclysmic
Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future
by Jonathan Shaw
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
al-Hariri
Brief life of a master storyteller
by Michael Cooperson
The Tensions That Roiled Texas
Annette Gordon-Reed on the real history of Texas, and Juneteenth