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Quality Care

As I read David Cutler's important new book on how to deal with the nation's most challenging social problem, I kept wanting more. Cutler...

On Human Reproduction

Peter Ellison's On Fertile Ground is a truly extraordinary, state-of-the-art book on a topic that concerns all human beings as individuals and a...

Off the Shelf

Recent books with a Harvard accent

Chapter & Verse

Fit for a Prince

A "Renaissance Library" takes shape

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Unwordly Perfection

Off the Shelf

Crossing over: Where Art and Science Meet...

Chapter & Verse

John Mitchell requests the source and the rest (if any) of a ditty that begins...

The Dear, Gentle, Saintly Mark Twain

Just short of 60 and deeply in debt because of his failed publishing firm, Samuel Clemens set out...

A Life in This World

A memoir of the writing life in country and city, and Mark Twain encounters the Aga Khan

Risk without Reward

When investors outsmarted themselves