Books & Literary Life
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Architectural Upheaval
A comprehensive examination of avant-garde architecture
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Recent books with Harvard connections
Realities of Empire
A new history indicts the British imperium.
The Broken Social Contract
Danielle Allen on America’s broken social contract
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to Speak at Harvard Alumni Day
An alumna and faculty member at a new Harvard tradition
by Nell Porter Brown
Fugitive Pedagogy
Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Music and Language, Reconciled
Matthew Aucoin on opera
by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Looking for the Real Stan Lee
Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur
by Dan Kelly
Open Book
Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace
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Recent books with Harvard connections