Features

Paul Steinhardt’s long, improbable search for a natural quasicrystal

Computing’s early days at Princeton

Peter W. Singer ’97 explains how we can be at war and hardly notice

The world celebrates the man who imagined the computer

Few newspapers review books these days. So who does?

Professor Douglas Massey *78 says that most of what we think about Mexican immigration is wrong

Jodi Picoult ’87 writes best-­sellers by asking ­questions about the things that worry us all

Unexpected ­Discoveries in Firestone Library

An undergrad’s search for the book of her generation

A grad student from Syria plays a role in his country’s uprising – and worries about those left behind

If you think a scientist can’t be a humanist, meet Erez Lieberman Aiden ’02

Jeff Kreisler ’95 visited another New York library

Most experts think an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. Not Gerta Keller

Internet, be damned: Nicholas Potter ’73 sells books the old-fashioned way