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
Lawrence Lessig Delivers a Prescription for Reforming American Democracy
How to reform voting and elections in the United States to create a representative democracy
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Excerpt from Jack Goldsmith, “In Hoffa’s Shadow”
A new look at “one of the greatest unsolved crimes in American history”
Excerpt from “What We Talk About When We Talk about Books” by Leah Price
A visit to the Harvard Depository
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Lincoln Caplan reviews “When Should Law Forgive?” by Martha Minow
…and don’t always forgive
David Damrosch promotes world literature
David Damrosch’s literary global reach
Adella Hunt Logan
Brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915
Excerpt from “Transaction Man” by Nicholas Lemann
“The rise of the deal and the decline of the American dream”
Excerpt from “The Soul of Care” by Arthur Kleinman
A medical anthropologist cares for his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife.