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
Justice and “Despair”
A critical analysis of “settler colonialism”
Off the Shelf
Recent books about Iraq, academic writing, John Singer Sargent, “eldercide,” and more
A More Generous, Capacious America
The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors
by Christoph Irmscher
Off the Shelf
Books about the art and science of eating, on being Zen, helping youngsters grow up, and more
Harvard, H.H.R., Houghton
Invaluable architectural archive published at last
by John S. Rosenberg
A Fictional Century
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Beyond the SAT
Nicholas Lemann on revising standardized testing to address real educational needs
History in Progress
How the War on Terror reshaped American life
by Nina Pasquini
“Volts of Your Own Spirit”
Seamus Heaney writes to Helen Vendler.
Off the Shelf
Democratic organizing, “architectural grafting,” the Constitution, offshore wealth, and other new books