Books & Literary Life
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Court-Ordered Inequity
A thumb on the scales
“Wild Dreams”
Malaysian-born Yangsze Choo writes novels infused with the tropical mysteries of her childhood.
by Stuart Miller
“Cut Missal Up…”
Consequences of book-breaking
by Diane E. Booton
"The Love of a Ghost for a Ghost"
A bombshell letter from modernist poet T.S. Eliot, 50 years after his death
by Lydialyle Gibson
“They Need Money”
The world’s richest nation tolerates “basically the highest child poverty rates in the developed world.”
Assaulting the Ramparts
In her new book, Rosabeth Moss Kanter thinks “outside the building.”
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Mystery of Mathematics
Teaching and learning math as a human endeavor
by Jacob Barandes
Eat, Drink, Read
The Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout
by Nell Porter Brown