The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, by Megan Marshall ’77 (Houghton Mifflin, $28), is a delightful group…
Tucked away at the periphery of the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) on Oxford Street in Cambridge, off to the side of the historic Hall…
Ever since the later nineteenth century, American schools — from elementary grades through college and graduate training — have increasingly…
Richard Parker, who directs the program on economics and journalism at the Kennedy School, has written a meticulous, meaty, and colorful…
Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, by Ross Gregory Douthat ’02 (Hyperion, $24.95). "Harvard was not what I had…
Michael Crichton ’64, M.D. ’69, State of Fear (HarperCollins, $27.95). Michael Crichton’s State of Fear is less a novel than…
For generations now, critics as well as poets have debated what relationship, if any, poetry has to rational thought. The majority view is that…
All cattle will build a social order within the herd. While the rank of a dairy cow is based almost entirely on its mass, Aberdeen-Angus beef…
Bury the Chains: Prophets, Slaves, and Rebels in the First Human Rights Crusade, by Adam Hochschild ’63 (Houghton Mifflin, $26.95). A printer, a…
From photographer Berenice Abbott to labor activist Elaine Black Yoneda, from Wyoming governor Nellie Tayloe Ross (born in 1876) to Tejana…
Franz Betz as top god Wotan. Costumes for Rheingold were based on "the latest discoveries of prehistoric times."From the bookFirst…
The Rarest of the Rare: Stories behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HarperResource, $22.95) is a delightful armchair…
Mark Feeney’s Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief is so well-intentioned, so weirdly ingenious, so full of lively and perceptive tidbits…
As I read David Cutler’s important new book on how to deal with the nation’s most challenging social problem, I kept wanting more. Cutler…
Neoconomy: George Bush’s Revolutionary Gamble with America’s Future, by Daniel Altman ’96, Ph.D. ’00 (Public Affairs, $26.95). "The…
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