Books & Literary Life
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
by Olivia Farrar
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
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Court-Ordered Inequity
A thumb on the scales
“Wild Dreams”
Malaysian-born Yangsze Choo writes novels infused with the tropical mysteries of her childhood.
by Stuart Miller
“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