Features
Alice Hamilton
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970
by Daniel Stone
Exposed
The erosion of privacy in the Internet era
by Jonathan Shaw
The Unlikely Writer
Atul Gawande, surgeon and health-policy scholar, never expected to be a literary voice of medicine.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Hello from Havana
Raúl Castro is changing Cuba. Will the United States respond?
Theobald Smith
A brief profile of the pioneering comparative pathologist
by Steven M. Niemi
Who Killed the Men of England?
Cutting-edge science helps historians push further and more fully into the past.
by Jonathan Shaw
Lessons from an Unexpected Life
One patient’s struggle with chronic illness highlights the complexities of modern medicine and the healthcare challenge.
Vistas of Perfection
A profile of writer James Agee, at Harvard and beyond
by Adam Kirsch
April Fool Every Day
Comedian Andy Borowitz ’80 has moved from Hollywood success to a multifaceted life as a humorist in New York.
by Craig Lambert
Caroline Farrar Ware
A brief profile of the activist and scholar
by Anne Firor Scott
Untangling the Brain
Three Harvard scholars trained in chemistry and physics pursue innovative approaches and tools that address problems in neuroscience.
by Courtney Humphries