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
Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, on skewed political power
Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.
Recent books by John Palfrey, E.O. Wilson, George Church, and others
Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections
A novel, "Sound," by Thomas P. Wolf, notated like a musical score
A novel, Sound, notated like a musical score
Excerpt from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot’s book "Exit:The Endings That Set Us Free”
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on life's liberating exits
Philosopher and scientist Robert O. Doyle has a new model of free will
Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.
Palindromist Mark Saltveit, Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner, and a sleuthing architect
A World Palindrome Champion, a sleuthing architect, and Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Books by Michael Sandel, Jill Lepore, Eric Sandweiss, Philip Warburg, and others
Recent books with Harvard connections
"Golden Holocaust," by Robert N. Proctor, advocates the abolition of cigarettes
Robert Proctor’s Golden Holocaust urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.
Harvard exhibits bicentennial Edward Lear animal art
A bicentennial exhibition features the little-known, masterful animal artistry of Edward Lear.