Books & Literary Life
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
See Their Faces
Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Publishing “The Harvard Advocate” Despite the Pandemic
The coronavirus delays—but can’t stop—the revered literary magazine.
by Kristina DeMichele
The Conservative
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s journey through American decadence and upheaval
by Lydialyle Gibson
Lorenzo Tañada
Brief life of a Philippine patriot: 1898-1992
by Christopher Capozzola
Finding Other Streets
Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew
by Dan Kelly
“To Break Our Own Rules”
Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers
by Lydialyle Gibson
In a Farmer’s Long Beard
Miriam Udel’s passion for children and Yiddish children’s literature
Family History
A German American scholar is unsettled by an ancestor’s secret.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections