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
Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes
Journalist, novelist, and social scientist honored
by Oset Babür
Harvard Undergraduate columnist on exclusive organizations
The Undergraduate wrestles with The Advocate’s exclusive comp process.
Yellow Wolf's Silence: The Untold Nez Perce War Story
Brief life of a Native American witness to history: c. 1855-1935
Harvard Business professor Mihir A. Desai ties finance to the humanities
A Business School professor ties finance and humanities together.
A natural history of Martha’s Vineyard, and other books with Harvard connections
A natural history of Martha’s Vineyard, and other books with Harvard connections
Review of Daniel Ziblatt, “Conservative Political Parties”
Scholarly lessons from Europe prove pertinent today.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Logic Is a Little Magazine That Asks Big Questions about the Tech Industry
Four alums foster Logic, a new magazine focusing on a complex tech world on fire.
by Oset Babür
Harvard Houghton Library 75th anniversary exhibition
A humanistic “masterclass” for Houghton Library's seventy-fifth anniversary
A new biography of Louis Kahn
Probing the primal drives of a landmark architect