Books & Literary Life


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

Leslie Jamison’s Many Selves

The essayist on isolation, empathy, and selfhood

by Nina Pasquini