May 1, 2001

Fit for a Prince

A "Renaissance Library" takes shape

by Elizabeth Gudrais

A new book traces napalm's invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah

All That’s Unseen charts the Harvard graduate’s uneasy journey from Appalachia to Cambridge and back.

In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up.

The Gretel and the Great War author on how the Lampoon derailed his science career—and set him on a literary path.

But it can’t replace human connection.

A College student’s attempt to recapture the romanticism of the workplace.