Books & Literary Life
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
“The Wonder Out There”
Rambling around the Quabbin Reservoir
by Nell Porter Brown
Speaking Volumes
Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection
by Nell Porter Brown
Getting Close, in Selma
Acting at a moment of conscience
by Drew Gilpin Faust
State-Sponsored Discrimination
The role of zoing law and housing in making America more unequal—and what to do about it
The Men Who Can’t Be Saved
Novelist Ben Purkert’s playfully serious look at masculinity
by Stuart Miller
Off the Shelf
Recent books on camping outdoors, economic opportunity, the women of NOW, and more
Life’s Blueprints
The development of developmental biology
by Jonathan Shaw
“Shotgun” Diagnosis
The virtues of inaction in delivering medical care
The New Little Magazines
Keeping literature and long-form journalism alive
by Nancy Walecki
Not-So-Free Parking
New book discusses how free parking spoiled cities for walkers, drivers, and residents
by Max J. Krupnick