Articles by Department: Books

Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street

November 1, 2009 • Extras Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.

The High-rise Ecotopia

November 1, 2009 An excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen ’78

Off the Shelf

November 1, 2009 Recent books with Harvard connections

Again, A Dangerous Art

November 1, 2009 Adam Kirsch reviews Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel ’57

The Slovenliness of the Intellectual

September 1, 2009 Socialism as family inconvenience

Off the Shelf

September 1, 2009 Recent books with Harvard connections

1 Women in a Woeful World

September 1, 2009 A review of Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

For the Joy of It

September 1, 2009 A new book relates the history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.

Feeding an Addiction

July 1, 2009 Enlisting the food industry in the fight against obesity

4 The Bible and the Almanac

May 1, 2009 How Pete Seeger got his start: an excerpt from Alec Wilkinson’s new biography, The Protest Singer

Off the Shelf

May 1, 2009 Recent books with Harvard connections

From Literature to the Lab

March 1, 2009 In this excerpt from his new book, The Art and Politics of Science, Nobel laureate Harold Varmus reflects on his switch from graduate work in English to medical school.

2 On Judicial Interpretation

March 1, 2009 Paul M. Barrett reviews The Invisible Constitution, by Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe.

Off the Shelf

March 1, 2009 Recent books with Harvard connections

Chapter & Verse

March 1, 2009