Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Fugitive Pedagogy
Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.
Open Book
Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace
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
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
A Democracy of Opportunity
Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.
Notes on Doctoring
Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine
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