Books & Literary Life
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Origin Stories
Bow and Arrow’s mechanic, James Agee’s creative turbulence
by Primus VI
The Layered Histories in Black Family Keepsakes
Tiya Miles traces a mother and daughter’s story through a cotton sack.
by Juliet Isselbacher
Amartya Sen, a Memoir
The book covers the first thirty years of the Nobel-prize winning economist’s life.
by Sugata Bose
Re-remembering Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her unusually personal book on the holiday.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Namwali Serpell
The professor of English is also a novelist and a critic.
by Jonathan Shaw
Off the Shelf: Recent Books with Harvard Connections
Tax follies, Thomas Sowell, Donald Hall, and more
A Surfing Author’s Children’s Book
In the swim with Bonnie Tsui
by S.I. Rosenbaum
Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100
The first century of the Chinese Communist Party—and what impends
Open Book: The Case for Commitment
Pete Davis expands on his Commencement address.
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
The founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner profiled
by Juliet Isselbacher