Arts & Culture
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
by Nina Pasquini
The Fiction of Limbo
Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.
by Bailey Trela
Chapter & Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.
Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse
Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
by Bennett McIntosh
A Mind of One’s Own
Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
by Nell Porter-Brown
“Wild Dreams”
Malaysian-born Yangsze Choo writes novels infused with the tropical mysteries of her childhood.
by Stuart Miller
“Cut Missal Up…”
Consequences of book-breaking
by Diane E. Booton
Karl May
Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912
by Eugene Stelzig
Deep Roots
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.
by Olivia Schwob
Personal History
An addiction to reading