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
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
Sargent’s Other Sides
A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Where We Went Wrong
A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century
Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists
An historian, a poet, and a translator
America’s Riven Politics
A Harvard Magazine Q & A with Evan Osnos ’98, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
A Long Night's Journey in Palestine
William Tamplin, Ph.D. ’20, on the lyricism and secrecy of an Arabic literary pioneer
“Fallen to the Depths”
Nicholas Dawidoff’s wrenching account of urban inequity