Books & Literary Life
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Fiction of Limbo
Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.
by Bailey Trela
The “Messy Experiment”
From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute
by Susan Ware
Chapter & Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
The Hollowing Out
Americans diminished by “social poverty”
by Allison Pugh
The Early Bird
A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community
by Nell Porter-Brown
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
by Donovan Moore
Taking the Plunge
The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.