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.

Genes seem to play a role in determining sexual orientation, but it’s small, uncertain, and complicated.

How Katie O’Dair makes kings, comedians, and parents feel welcome on campus.

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

Singer Elisa Smith’s whiskey-soaked voice and subversive feminism is part of the genre’s urban shift.