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Excerpts
Works by Harvard-affiliated authors
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Arts & Culture‘She took those kids and left before he got home from work.’
Jayne Anne Phillips recalls childhood visits to beauty shop in rural West Virginia hometown in new memoir
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Arts & CultureWays to keep talking — and maybe find way forward — amid riven times
Julia Minson’s new book says starting point involves signaling goodwill, respect, highlighting shared interests
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HealthWant to feel more loved? Forget changing yourself. Change conversation.
Two psychologists offer science-backed framework on how to improve relationships
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Nation & WorldHow to end polarization? Schools may be best hope.
Journalist blends history, on-the-ground reporting, finds answer may be civic education that goes far beyond 3 branches of government
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Arts & CultureWhat karaoke taught Elizabeth McCracken about fiction
In new guide to writing, novelist details value of being able to live with failure — and why she no longer sings in public
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Work & EconomyHow Barbie became the ‘It Girl’
Innovative marketing, ad strategy helps fashion doll rocket through Mad Men years and beyond, with tip of hat to Gillette
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Flight from reason
In his new book, “How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy,” Thomas Patterson looks at the rejection of logic and reason in American political life and how it threatens Democracy.
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One L, only harder
The following is excerpted from Haben Girma’s memoir “Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law.”
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Like a fish out of a war zone
An excerpt from “The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir” by Samantha Power.
