Books

A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein '61CC

North Korea has sealed itself off from the world, but cracks are beginning to show. What does it all mean — and what should the U.S. do next?

By Robert Cohen '83SOA

Agreements that Changed the Modern World, by Frederik Stanton '96CC

An interview with Jerome Charyn ’59CC, author of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel

Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, by Stephen H. Norwood '84GSAS

Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley

Beijing’s Music Underground. By photographer Matthew Niederhauser ’05CC

The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. By Mark Mazower

How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City. By Anthony Flint '85JRN

The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell '85GSAS

Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne '90CC with an essay by Oliver Sacks