May 1, 2001

Off the Shelf

Recent books with a Harvard accent

The underlying arguments project clashing worldviews of race and appropriate remedies.

An animal’s journey from grief to love shows how much humans need each other, too.

A Harvard botanist investigates mystic potions, voodoo rites, and the making of zombies.

Author and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams finds beauty in the world around us.

Nobel Prize recipient Joseph E. Murray dedicated much of his career to organ transplant surgery.

The Harvard Arts Medalist wants his smash-hit Cats revival to reach “as many young queer people” as possible.