For some music lovers, it may be a relief when the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach passes on July 28. Though he has…
“Why can’t one speak truth sometimes, and call C.E.N. publicly and without apology the infernal old sinner and sham that he is,” wrote William…
On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan shocked the national security establishment by calling upon the nation’s scientific community…
The View from Nebo: How Archaeology Is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East, by Amy Dockser Marcus ’87 (Little, Brown, $25.95)…
The morning after Beowulf wrenches off Grendel’s arm—thus purging the Danish royal hall of its unwelcome visitor—King…
Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media…
On the Rez, by Ian Frazier ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). “This book is about Indians, particularly the Oglala…
Heaven’s Door is George J. Borjas’s second major work on the economic consequences of the great wave of immigration into the United States of…
Linnaeus: Nature and Nation, by Lisbet Koerner, Ph.D. ’93, associate of the department of the history of science (Harvard University Press…
Fairfield Porter ’28 was a realist painter in the midst of the abstract expressionist movement. He had an emotionally complex life. Although he…
In the liner notes to the John Adams Earbox, 10 compact discs of works, primarily orchestral, by John Adams ’69, A.M. ’72, the composer recounts…
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