Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Making Money Funny
Matt Levine’s spunky Bloomberg column
by Max J. Krupnick
The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes
Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
by Lydialyle Gibson
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
by Jacob Sweet
The Broken Social Contract
Danielle Allen on America’s broken social contract
Architectural Upheaval
A comprehensive examination of avant-garde architecture
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Realities of Empire
A new history indicts the British imperium.
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to Speak at Harvard Alumni Day
An alumna and faculty member at a new Harvard tradition
by Nell Porter-Brown
Fugitive Pedagogy
Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Open Book
Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections