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
A history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
A new book relates the history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
Harvard University Press closes its display room
The Harvard University Press display room closes its doors.
Amelia Lester named New Yorker managing editor
Amelia Lester ’05 is a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine.
The Last of His Kind: A new biography of mountaineer and photographer H. Bradfor
The life of mountaineer, pioneering aerial photographer, and Museum of Science leader H. Bradford Washburn, newly chronicled by fellow mountaineer David Roberts ’65.
David McCann wants sijo, an ancient form of Korean poetry, to catch on.
Professor David McCann wants an ancient form of Korean poetry to catch on the way haiku has.
Great books teach life lessons: Christopher Beha reads the Harvard Classics cove
A new book documents a Princetonian’s year-long immersion in the Harvard Classics, the venerable "Five-foot Shelf" of Great Books.
Shuttered Behind Bars
In a new book, photographer Bruce Jackson presents old ID photo portraits from an Arkansas prison.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
"Days With the Family Realist"
A poem for the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
Slaying Dragons
A crime novelist explores the deepest cracks in the human heart.