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
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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
New book by psychologist, sociologist surveys depth, complexity of Bruce Springsteen’s connection to his female fans
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
Jeffrey Toobin examines how Oklahoma City bomber’s beliefs about guns, Founding Fathers, power of violence have been embraced by extreme right
Anupam Jena, Christopher Worsham sift data to find hidden forces at work in healthcare in new book
Professor of psychiatry Luana Marques says in new book that too many mistake symptoms for underlying problem
New book by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway traces history of Big Business campaign to push ‘big myth’
In new book, Tracy Kidder follows ‘Dr. Jim,’ who provides homeless people with health care, prescriptions, hot soup, occasional $5 bill
Daniel Goleman, Tsoknyi Rinpoche walk us through science, practice of why we should meditate
Neuroscientist Ann-Christine Duhaime’s new book blames it on weaknesses in how we’re wired to deal with abstract challenges
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
They’re building blocks of life, Siddhartha Mukherjee says in his new book, but their vulnerabilities are also our vulnerabilities
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
Becca Levy ‘92, Ph.D. ’95 examines hidden stereotypes of aging, their insidious effects in excerpt from her new book
Some were elected; others lead fight for gun control, racial equity, environment. All embrace social media, their own True North.
Juliette Kayyem says we often take wrong lessons from history in excerpt from new book
Cathy O’Neil, author of award-winning ‘Weapons of Math Destruction,’ examines ways humiliation is weaponized — and why
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
Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s book traces tactics of groundbreaking lawyer Constance Baker Motley amid pivotal protests
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
Farah Stockman follows unraveling of three lives, examines who wins and loses amid ‘planned obsolescence of people’
After decade away, Evan Osnos writes about transformation in U.S. between 9/11 and Capitol attack
Suzanne Koven’s memoir recalls how ‘florid’ narrative gave way to one told through fever charts, lab values
It can be fixed, Steven Pinker argues, and if we don’t our democracy and environment may be at stake
Corey's estranged father moves in to help care for ALS-stricken Gloria in Atticus Lish's new novel
Excerpt from memoir chronicles an intern’s day in the ER
Book explores a tattered artifact to piece together a history of a family torn apart
Henry Louis Gates’ new book traces the institution’s role in history, politics, and culture
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 safer, better nutritionally, or likely produced by small, local farm, Robert Paarlberg argues in new book
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
‘The Equivalents’ follows Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin, Tillie Olsen, Barbara Swan, and Marianna Pineda through the birth of Radcliffe Institute and the modern women’s movement
A star pitcher struggles with the dystopian AutoAmerica police state in Gish Jen’s new satire
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
Thomas Patterson looks at the threat to Democracy in ‘How America Lost Its Mind’
Figuring out Law School is grueling. Being deafblind doesn’t make it easier
In an excerpt from her just-released memoir, Samantha Power recalls her experience going from Balkans war correspondent to Law School student — and her stumbles along the way