Books & Literary Life
A New Chapter for Harvard Arts
The Office for the Arts turns 50, and its longtime director steps down.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence
Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
How Revolutions Happen
Robert Darnton on the origins of the French Revolutionary temperament
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012
by Jennifer Burns
Black Students Speak
Jarvis Givens on two centuries of African American education
by Lydialyle Gibson
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
“The Wonder Out There”
Rambling around the Quabbin Reservoir
by Nell Porter Brown