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
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
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