Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
How Adam Ehrlich Sachs Writes Absurd and Beautiful Fiction
The Gretel and the Great War author on how the Lampoon derailed his science career—and set him on a literary path.
by Eric Olson
A new biography of Louis Kahn
Probing the primal drives of a landmark architect
Reality fiction: the delightful fullness of Elif Batuman's “The Idiot”
Elif Batuman’s novel The Idiot reflects on her Harvard freshman year.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Wordsworth seen anew and other recent books
Wordsworth seen anew, and other recent books
Adam Kirsch on Megan Marshall’s Elizabeth Bishop biography
Adam Kirsch reviews Megan Marshall’s biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
by Adam Kirsch
Michael Klarman reinterprets the American founding
The anti-democratic origins of the Constitution
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Art, history, and food in Providence, R.I.
Car-free fun in downtown Providence
Kamensky, Caplan, MacGregor, and Sherman honored by Harvard Magazine
Celebrating distinguished authors and artists
Deidre Lynch on Jane Austen and loving literature
Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature