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
Houghton Library Features Children’s Books in Opening Exhibit
“Animals Are Us” contextualizes Houghton’s new treasures.
by Jacob Sweet
“I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak”
Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
by Lily Scherlis
The Renovated Harvard Coop
Adapting to new conditions—but books are still a “core business”
by Kristina DeMichele
Life After Brain Injury
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
by Lydialyle Gibson
How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.
by Juliet Isselbacher
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Getting Close to the Past
A powerful public history of slavery in America
by Drew Gilpin Faust
Supreme Court Brinkmanship
Linda Greenhouse on the 2020-2021 Supreme Court—and the changes to come
Namwali Serpell’s Novel-In-Progress
The acclaimed author and English professor will explore mourning and reunion in The Furrows: An Elegy.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Open Book: Hiding in a Tick Mattress
Wilfred Rembert’s escape from a lynching