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.
Arabic Translator Marilyn Booth
Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.
Recent Books with Harvard Connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Secretaries’ Role In History of Information
From a huge new book on the history of information, an excerpt on the role of secretaries
Novelist Maggie Shipstead and “Great Circle”
Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel
by Dan Kelly
Andrew Knoll, “a Brief History of Earth,” Reviewed by Jonathan Shaw
Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future
Correspondence On Not-so-Famous Lost Words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Profile of Radhika Jones
Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair
The Muse & the Marketplace 2021
This Boston conference offers a virtual writing retreat.
An Intellectual History of the Cold War Era
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
An Innovative Gate for Harvard Yard
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
by Jacob Sweet