(Un)common Sense
Historian Sophia Rosenfeld examines the origins of politicians’ appeals to “common sense.”
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A Singular Woman’s Biographer
Janny Scott ’77 introduces Barack Obama’s mother to a wider audience.
6.16.11
The Brain As Art
Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics.
6.16.11
Ants through the Ages
In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are “the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans.”
6.16.11
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Recent books with Harvard connections
6.16.11
Devoted to Debt
Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman’s Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink.
6.16.11
Swerves
Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.
6.16.11
Fakery and Shakespeare
A con man, his son, and a fiction on two levels
6.16.11
Civil War Reawakened
Adam Goodheart’s new book explores the Civil War.
4.27.11
Poetic Paschen
The Chicago poet has spread the good wordings via book, CD—and subway.
4.19.11
Medical Alumnus Wins Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. ’00, is honored for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
4.18.11
Do or Die
Sugata Bose reviews Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, by Joseph Lelyveld.
4.17.11
Honeybee House Hunting
An excerpt from Thomas D. Seeley’s new book, Honeybee Democracy
4.17.11
Pride of the Indian College
Geraldine Brooks’s new novel stars Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, Harvard’s first Native American graduate, A.B. 1665.
4.17.11
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections