Books & Literary Life
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
by Olivia Farrar
Deep Roots
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.
by Olivia Schwob
Personal History
An addiction to reading
"The Love of a Ghost for a Ghost"
A bombshell letter from modernist poet T.S. Eliot, 50 years after his death
by Lydialyle Gibson
“They Need Money”
The world’s richest nation tolerates “basically the highest child poverty rates in the developed world.”
Assaulting the Ramparts
In her new book, Rosabeth Moss Kanter thinks “outside the building.”
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Mystery of Mathematics
Teaching and learning math as a human endeavor
by Jacob Barandes
Eat, Drink, Read
The Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout
by Nell Porter-Brown
Medicine for an Ailing Democracy
How to reform voting and elections in the United States to create a representative democracy
by Jonathan Shaw
Hoffa and Harvard Law
A new look at “one of the greatest unsolved crimes in American history”