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
Electoral Eccentricity
Problematic features of the Electoral College
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Arts as Essential Goods
A prescient novelist is hopeful that “after great change, amazing things can happen.”
by Nell Porter-Brown
Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions
How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
by Nell Porter-Brown
A Second Pulitzer for Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys wins the 2020 prize for fiction.
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.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Fiction of Limbo
Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.
by Bailey Trela