Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Being Undocumented In America
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s writing aims to challenge assumptions.
Fugitive Pedagogy
Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Music and Language, Reconciled
Matthew Aucoin on opera
Looking for the Real Stan Lee
Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur
by Dan Kelly
Open Book
Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace
Reporting, with an M.b.a.
Charles Duhigg unpacks how individuals and organizations work at war, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley
The Poet of Old Age
Donald Hall, chronicler of life
by Adam Kirsch
Thinking Straight
Steven Pinker on rationality
War, Misremembered
Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.
Border Crossing
Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.