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
Eat, Drink, Read
The Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout
by Nell Porter-Brown
“They Need Money”
The world’s richest nation tolerates “basically the highest child poverty rates in the developed world.”
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”
“The Luckiest Books”
A visit to the Harvard Depository
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Forgive, but Don’t Forget
…and don’t always forgive
by Lincoln Caplan
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
A World of Literature
David Damrosch’s literary global reach
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Adella Hunt Logan
Brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915
by Adele Logan Ale...