Books & Literary Life
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
by Nina Pasquini
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
The Physician-Poet
Rafael Campo’s compassionate care
by Lydialyle Gibson
America’s Great Modern Justice
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
by Lincoln Caplan
Harper Lee, Crime Reporter
Casey Cep’s debut book, on a murder trial and Harper Lee
The Comic-Book Storyteller
Graphic novelist Amy Chu
by S.I. Rosenbaum
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
A New Story of Suffrage
Fresh portraits of U.S. foot soldiers for women’s right to vote
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Misguided Mind Fixers
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“Doctor Bugs”
Naturalist Mark W. Moffett investigates insects—and now, evolving human societies.
by Nell Porter-Brown