Books & Literary Life
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
by Olivia Farrar
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
Special Advertising Section: Harvard Authors' Bookshelf
Calling all Harvard Authors! Advertise your book in time for the holidays.
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
A Fragile Relationship
The parallel, perilous, histories of China and Japan
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Are Mushrooms the New Meat?
The farmers at MV Mycological hope so.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
by Jacob Sweet