If you were told that an emeritus professor at Harvard had decided to stitch together several of his recent public lectures and publish them as…
Will Chandler at the helm The Cruise of the Blue Dolphin: A Family’s Adventure at Sea, by Nina Chandler Murray (Lyons Press, $24.95)…
The favorite baseball player of the late Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)—as readers of a new collection of his essays on…
“Paint a picture of your ideal world,” Debra Trione asked 50 “of the most powerful and influential leaders in America.” A Perfect World (Andrews…
In February 1989, Judith Richards Hope, J.D. ’64, became the first woman member of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s executive governing…
When Jeffrey L. Steingarten switched careers in 1989, leaving the profession of law to join Vogue magazine as its resident food critic, he had…
A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, by Lizabeth Cohen, Jones professor of American studies (Knopf…
Sometimes wrong; never in doubt.” Atul Gawande quotes this saying about surgeons in the opening pages of Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an…
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, by Chris Hedges, M. Div. ’83, Nf ’99 (Public Affairs, $23). “Compared to war all other forms of human…
In the passage that follows from “First Fruits,” one of the seven short stories that, with five personal histories, constitute Roofwalker…
Among the unsung heroes of the twentieth century is Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, a linguist, and an international lawyer, who reached the…
Racism: A Short History, by George M. Fredrickson ’56, Ph.D. ’64 (Princeton University Press, $22.95). Clear, crisp, and engaging, this overview…
"The good news is that there are now a host of writers and a growing number of courses and workshops designed to enlighten white people as…
Campus turmoil tumbled into Robinson Hall during the 1969 strike, when students turned the building into a factory for the production of…
It is a testament to his energy, vitality, and ambition that, in the ninth decade of his life, the business school’s Alfred Chandler ’40, Ph.D…
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