Books & Literary Life


The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced

Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture

by Olivia Farrar

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

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

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...

Things Fell Apart

“The rise of the deal and the decline of the American dream”

“Find My Real Husband”

A medical anthropologist cares for his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife.

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Toward the Negotiated City

In the history of urban renewal, a glimmer of the possibilities of social policy today

by Ann Forsyth