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
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
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.
Lizabeth Cohen Awarded Bancroft Prize
The urban historian is honored—for the second time.
by John S. Rosenberg
Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse
Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
by Bennett McIntosh
A Mind of One’s Own
Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
by Nell Porter-Brown
“Cut Missal Up…”
Consequences of book-breaking
by Diane E. Booton
Karl May
Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912
by Eugene Stelzig