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
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
A Tale of Two Detectives
Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre.
by Paul Gleason
An Intimate Look at Zuckerberg and Other High-Tech Figures
Hafner writes that Lacy's "explanation of how venture capital works is instructive and clear, perhaps one of the best yet written for a general readership."
A Familiar Tale, Told With Style
Those in search of summer beach reading might pick up The Romantics, a new novel by Galt Niederhoffer ’97...
Two Musical Neighborhoods
Harvard professor Lewis Lockwood and the Julliard String Quartet have collaborated on Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation...
Anthologizing Yourself
Mary Jo Salter keeps her own (and others') poetry alive...
by Paul Gleason
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words...
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections...
Shakespeare, Lost and Found
How could it be that a Shakespeare play currently being performed at the American Repertory Theatre was actually written not by The Bard, but by two men of Harvard?
Freeing Speech
Anthony Lewis’s Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment offers a lucid and engaging overview of American...