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
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books on women, mapping Manhattan, the Federal Reserve, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard's Walter Johnson on the slave South
The capitalist economy and dark dreams of the slaveholding South
A South African refugee crisis
An alumna recounts a refugee crisis in South Africa.
Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude
On crafting a liberal-arts education by reading the classics and shaping one's life course
Helen Vendler's collaboration with Arion Press
The poetry critic, the publisher, and the art of bookmaking in a digital era
Arthur Rosenthal, longtime Harvard University Press Director, Has Died
His focus on publishing scholarly titles with broader, mass-market appeal helped put HUP back in the black.
Thoughts on critical reading from Reuben Brower’s “The Fields of Light”
An excerpt from Reuben Brower’s The Fields of Light: An Experiment in Critical Reading
Ilona Bell's Yard of Allusions
Ilona Bell's Yard of Allusions
Recent books on FDR, bioluminescence, ecorithms, intuition pumps, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections