Library history used to be the sleepiest of all academic disciplines. Compared with the gripping narratives of military or political history, it…
Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths, by Mary Lefkowitz, Ph.D. ’61, RI ’73 (Yale University Press, $30). Lefkowitz, who has…
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation (Knopf, $25.95), by David A. Price, J.D. ’86, is a stylishly…
"Build a yurt with Bill and you witness his educational ideas in action. The yurt is his philosophy made visible—security…
Courtesy WGBHPhysicists’ quest for the "theory of everything," now focused on string theory, poses unusual problems of imagination…
Benjamin Franklin, himself a prolific writer of exceptional grace and vigor, would surely be delighted with the vivid accounts of his life that…
Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil, by Peter Stansky, Ph.D. ’61 (Yale University Press, $35). Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939), descended…
The great concert organist—and sometime radio-broadcast star—E. Power Biggs brought fame to himself and limelight to Harvard on an…
Andrew H. Knoll, Ph.D. ’77, Fisher professor of natural history, is a paleontologist who integrates geological and biological perspectives on…
For 42 summers, George Howe Colt ’76 repaired to the four-story, 11-bedroom ark of a summer house his great-grandfather Ned Atkinson built on a…
After Jihad, by Noah Feldman ’92, Jf ’01 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24). Is Islamic democracy possible? Should America help bring it about?…
The history of Salem witchcraft has its own history, its own long, tortuous, emotionally freighted sequence of tellings and retellings…
An apocryphal tale about car-window decals epitomizes the frenzy surrounding college admissions in recent years. One high-school counselor tells…
The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture, by Douglass Shand-Tucci ’72 (St. Martin’s, $25.95). After…
Poet and literary figure John Hall Wheelock ’08 (1886-1978) was an editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons for 46 years, working with Hemingway…
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