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
Promoting the arts and humanities at Harvard Medical School
This fall, Harvard Medical School will launch a new program to promote the arts and humanities.
by Zara Zhang
Harvard’s Robin Kelsey on photography
Robin Kelsey probes the place of photography within art.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“Evolving Ourselves,” by Enriquez and Gullans, reviewed by Katherine Xue
Tall tales from biology’s Wild West
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
T.S. Eliot as a Harvard student
A rediscovery of the emerging poet
by Adam Kirsch
Harvard novelist Lauren Willig plans the next plot twist in her career
From lawyering to a literary life.
Craig Lambert on shadow work
A Harvard Magazine alumnus on the new world of “middle-class serfdom”
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard professor critiques book on youth, maturity
A philosopher’s take on individuals and maturity, in a world of institutions