Everyone calls it a classic. But who’s everyone, and why am I so bored? For centuries, authors, scholars, critics, and ordinary readers have sought to understand and explain what makes a great book great. When we say “classic,” we mean a work “which helps you define yourself in relation or ...
Closer look at ‘father of atomic bomb’ J. Robert Oppenheimer pictured in 1926 at Harvard and in 1958. J. Robert Oppenheimer was a complicated man. A Harvard-educated theoretical physicist and scientific director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico during World War II, he is ...