Books & Literary Life
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
by Olivia Farrar
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Off the Shelf
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
A New Voice
Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Chinese in America
Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction
Ben Franklin’s Project
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
by Joyce E. Chaplin
Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
by Lydialyle Gibson
Abraham Verghese Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
Physician and author will address the graduation exercises May 29.
by John S. Rosenberg
Cruel and Unjust
A legal scholar’s harsh assessment of the Supreme Court’s rulings on crime
by Lincoln Caplan
Off the Shelf
Artmaking under duress, designing the UN HQ, Booker White’s blues, and more