Brutish Beginnings
The “mixed multitudes” of early Colonial America—and the Native Americans
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Paradoxical Fables
Ben Loory’s minimalist stories ambush the reader.
12.14.12
Brotherly Love
In Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History, George Howe Colt offers autobiography and biography both.
12.14.12
Vita: Alexandre Dumas
Brief life of the soldier who inspired The Count of Monte Cristo: 1762-1806
10.15.12
Bluffer-in-Chief
In Evan Thomas’s new biography, President Eisenhower emerges as a canny nuclear strategist.
10.15.12
Off the Shelf
Recent books by John Updike, Marjorie Garber, George Vaillant, Thomas McGraw, and others with Harvard connections
10.15.12
Press Women
Ellen Faran ’73 and Gita Manaktala ’87 advance knowledge through publishing.
10.15.12
Reform School
Harvard’s long-closed Social Museum promoted progressive values.
8.17.12
America the Politically Unequal
Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.
8.17.12
Off the Shelf
Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections
8.17.12
Fiction in Counterpoint
A novel, Sound, notated like a musical score
8.17.12
Over and Done
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on life’s liberating exits
8.17.12
Two Steps to Free Will
Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.
8.17.12
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
6.15.12
Thinking Outside the Pack
Robert Proctor’s Golden Holocaust urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.