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
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
“A Prayer for Our Country”
Author Isabel Wilkerson kicks off a Harvard speaker series on storytelling and public health.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Grinding Out Lawyers—by Grinding Down Students
The making of the modern Harvard Law School
by Lincoln Caplan
Defying Limits
David Roberts: A lifetime of adventures, risks, and rewards
by Nell Porter-Brown
Picturing America
“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art
by Nell Porter-Brown
First-Gen Inclusion and Belonging
Rachel Gable’s research on helping first-generation and low-income students succeed at elite colleges
by John S. Rosenberg
The American Exception
How faith shapes economic and social policy
The World-Wise JFK
An unusual senior thesis