Binomial Nomenclature

The series Binomial Nomenclature began inauspiciously at a meeting a few years ago, when I scribbled a likeness of a colleague’s rather perfect nose on my printed conference agenda. I labeled it ...

The History of Secrets

Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen injects the marrow back into two centuries of skeletons locked away in household closets. A leading historian of modern Britain and Europe, Cohen has put together a ...