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
“Like Driving at Night”
Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel
by Dan Kelly
Transitions Gradual and Cataclysmic
Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future
by Jonathan Shaw
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Rather Psychologically Peculiar
Reinterpreting the distinctive psychology of the human West
A Lone Star Saga
Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Curator of American Culture
Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Write It!
This Boston conference offers a virtual writing retreat.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Culture in the Cold War
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield