Featured series 
Excerpts
Works by Harvard-affiliated authors
-
Arts & CultureAmerican Dream turned deadly
He just needs to pass the bar now. But blue-collar Conor’s life spirals after a tangled affair at old-money seaside enclave in Teddy Wayne’s literary thriller
-
HealthWomen rarely die from heart problems, right? Ask Paula.
New book traces how medical establishment’s sexism, focus on men over centuries continues to endanger women’s health, lives
-
Nation & WorldElection theft 101: Foster skepticism
Two legal scholars, stunned by Jan. 6 insurrection, game out half-dozen possible schemes that exploit, spotlight flaws in system
-
HealthWas racism a factor in mother’s leukemia?
Dale Blackstock grew up low-income, became a physician. Her death left daughter Uché, also a doctor, with a lesson on color, class, healthcare
-
Arts & CultureWhy are we unhappy?
Zen Buddhist teacher says it’s because we’re always struggling either to possess or avoid people, things, or situations
-
Science & TechYou did it of your own free will? No such thing.
Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky says every decision, action you make is result of chain of genes, biology, experience that preceded it
-
Why doesn’t rationality seem to matter anymore?
Rationality can be fixed, Steven Pinker argues, and if we don’t our democracy and environment may be at stake.
-
A son nearing adulthood, his mom nearing death
Teen’s shady father moves in when his mom is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in new novel by Atticus Lish.
-
Thrown into the deep end in the psych ward
Excerpt from memoir chronicles an intern’s day in the ER.
-
Her daughter about to be sold away, an enslaved mother carefully packs her a sack
In Tiya Miles’ “All That She Carried,” the book explores a tattered artifact to piece together a history of a family torn apart.
-
How the Black Church saved Black America
Henry Louis Gates’ new book on the Black Church traces the institution’s role in history, politics, and culture.
-
How to make exercise happen
An excerpt from Daniel Lieberman’s newest book, “Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding.”
-
Only eat organic? You’re paying too much, and it’s not worth it, author says
An excerpt from “Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat” by Robert Paarlberg, associate in the Sustainability Science Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
-
Toppling the myth of meritocracy
The myth of meritocracy is not merely self-deluding, Michael Sandel argues in his new book, but it also fuels our divisiveness.
-
Nathan Pusey’s battle with Joseph McCarthy
An excerpt from the new book “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy” by Larry Tye.
-
A room of one’s own
Excerpt from “The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s” by Maggie Doherty.
-
Girl with the golden arm
In this excerpt from Gish Jen’s satiric new novel, a star pitcher struggles against the police state in a riven, dystopian America.
-
How America went astray
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn return to Kristof’s rural Oregon hometown to find the roots of white working-class anger
-
Flight from reason
In his new book, “How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy,” Thomas Patterson looks at the rejection of logic and reason in American political life and how it threatens Democracy.
-
One L, only harder
The following is excerpted from Haben Girma’s memoir “Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law.”
-
Like a fish out of a war zone
An excerpt from “The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir” by Samantha Power.
