Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Matt Levine's Bloomberg Finance Column Makes Money Funny
Matt Levine’s spunky Bloomberg column
Harvard Summer Reading Picks | 2025
The wealth gap, shamanism, the life of David Nathan, and more
David Leo Rice on 'The Berlin Wall'
David Leo Rice explores the strange, unseen forces shaping our world.
A Magna Carta at Harvard Law School
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
Filmmaker Salvador Litvak's Jewish Movies
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
Publications by Harvard Authors Spring 2025: New Releases
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
Children's Books from Ann Kim Ha
Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books
Chinese Immigrants in Early America
Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction
The Franklin Stove—A Historical Climate Change Adaptation
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge