In ‘Career and Family’ Claudia Goldin tracks evolution through 20th-century gains to today's era of hyper-competition, earning inequality that forces harsh life choices
Books
Excerpts of works by Harvard-affiliated authors
Viewed as example of American ingenuity, prized military weapon exploded in popularity, best known now as tool to kill innocent people
Ruth Simmons’ memoir traces everyday natural beauty, mortal peril of growing up Black in 1940s rural Texas
Future Harvard president leaves Virginia for Concord Academy, set on path by JFK inauguration speech, visit by MLK
Professor of psychiatry Luana Marques says in new book that too many mistake symptoms for underlying problem
In new book, Tracy Kidder follows ‘Dr. Jim,’ who provides homeless people with health care, prescriptions, hot soup, occasional $5 bill
They were physicians, research stars at Dana-Farber, and all couples have secrets. Barrett Rollins wrestles with one Jane Weeks insisted they keep
Imani Perry returns to Alabama to interview Angela Davis, another daughter of Birmingham, in excerpt from new book
New book traces insurgent use of text, photos, media on internet to upend crucial institutions of democracy
Former Bioethics Fellow Jay Baruch ’02 recalls impatient patient who pulled her own breathing tube (and lived to tell about it) in new memoir
Some were elected; others lead fight for gun control, racial equity, environment. All embrace social media, their own True North.
Weike Wang tails Harvard-educated ICU doc through surprise visit after her dad's death in witty look at family, culture, and COVID
Judged ‘vile’ and ‘obscene’ in 1922, Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ exploded old ways of thinking about fiction — and world itself
In his new book, Matthew Aucoin details what he was thinking, and why it felt like a mistake at times (Spoiler alert: It worked out fine)
Linda Greenhouse traces forces that made near certain rise of newest — and undeniably consequential — Supreme Court justice
Suzanne Koven’s memoir recalls how ‘florid’ narrative gave way to one told through fever charts, lab values
In his new book, Daniel Lieberman details how emotions can motivate us to move and ignore our evolutionary impulse to just take it easy
Not merely self-deluding, Michael Sandel argues in excerpt from new book, it also fuels our divisiveness
Excerpt from new book recalls how college leaders sometimes defied and other times equivocated when faced with bullying demagoguery
In their new book, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn return to Kristof’s rural Oregon hometown to find the roots of white working-class anger