Books & Literary Life
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
by Bailey Trela
The Modern World Reconceived
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”
by J. Bradford Delong
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
by Marilynn Richtarik
It's Still Hard for Women in Science
New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now
by Nancy Walecki
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld
A Higher Degree of Responsibility
On the history and potential of values-driven enterprises
by Geoffrey Jones
Emily Dickinson—Dashed
Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
From War Zones to the North Shore
A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
How humans hybridize their civilizations
by Adam Kirsch