Research

Q&A: Wendy Belcher, on an Influential Woman

Biography of Ethiopian saint sheds light on distant era

Q&A: Christina Lazaridi ’92

Words on Film: Thinking like a poet helps a screenwriter find the emotional core of a script

Psychology: Money and Happiness

How the poor improve their lives — and mindset — when they receive financial help

Update: Into the Cosmos

Teaming with NASA to explore the nature of our place in the universe

Astrophysics: View of the Heavens

A new telescope aims to map the universe in stunning and unprecedented detail

The Sun, The Moon, The Stars

Q&A: Ali Valenzuela

A Force to Contend With: Hispanic voters have become a crucial factor in American elections

Q&A: Jhumpa Lahiri on Loving Italian

Writing in Italian offers a meditation on Lahiri’s passion for the language

Creative Writing: Big Sky Country

Montana holds the key to a family’s idiosyncrasies in Boris Fishman ’01’s novel Americans

A Debut Novel Tackles Translation

In Short

Q&A: Jessica Metcalf on Herd Immunity

The importance of vaccination, and how its effects can be undermined

International Affairs: The Banality of Evil

Terrorist groups such as al-Qaida, says Jacob Shapiro, are ‘surprisingly mundane’

A Mischief-Maker’s Games in Math and Life

Biography: John Conway

In Short

Economics: Mortality Rising

Case-Deaton study reveals a sharp rise in death rates for middle-aged whites Americans

Faculty Book: Eddie S. Glaude Jr. *97

How Race Still Enslaves, And What Must Be Done

Excerpt: Democracy in Black

Biology: Found: New Bird Species

In Short

Faculty Book: Helen Milner

How Politics Shapes Foreign-Policy Strategies

New Releases

Biology: Complex Copulation

A tiny, pond-dwelling organism has some of the most complicated sex on the planet

Electrical Engineering: Diagnosis via Smartphone: A Faster and More Portable Blood Test