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
Toward the Negotiated City
In the history of urban renewal, a glimmer of the possibilities of social policy today
by Ann Forsyth
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
A New Way of Being in the World
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s “laser beam” insights into the lives of animals and humans
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
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”
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Ellen Newbold La Motte
Brief life of a bold activist: 1873-1961
by Cynthia Wachtell
Picasso Reinterpreted
A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections