Features
The Goodness of Being Together
Why social interactions are as vital as food and water
by Erin O'Donnell
Benjamin Smith Lyman
Brief life of the vegetarian trailblazer, 1835-1920
by Christine M.E. Guth
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.
by Craig Lambert
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
The president emeritus on elite universities’ academic accomplishments—and a rising tide of antagonism
by Derek Bok
How Birds Lost Flight
Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.
by Veronique Greenwood
Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust
Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965
by Jason Bell
Zelia Nuttall
Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)
by Merilee Grindle
Break Every Chain
How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice
by Max J. Krupnick
How to Make a Mammal
Studying the fates of cells, Sharad Ramanathan comes closer to understanding the biology of development.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Philosopher of the Real World
Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012
by Jennifer Burns