Arts & Culture

Uncovering histories of us

Schlesinger Library’s scrapbook collection offers scholars insights into hidden stories, texture of everyday life in bygone eras

Historic collab: Harvard’s Glee Club, Fisk’s Jubilee Singers

Two of nation’s most storied collegiate choirs join to share, perform in Nashville

A lost archive of Black history

25 years after landmark photography book, Deborah Willis is still scouring albums, attics, cabinets, cards to fill in the record

When a fictional character becomes too real

Why Catherine Lacey can’t avoid ‘terrifying’ disclosures on the page and every story feels like her last

Not your father’s Wild, Wild West

Megan Kate Nelson’s new book challenges myths of American frontier, finds more diverse, complex saga

‘She took those kids and left before he got home from work.’

Jayne Anne Phillips recalls childhood visits to beauty shop in rural West Virginia hometown in new memoir

Part of the Excerpts series