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
Are Mushrooms the New Meat?
The farmers at MV Mycological hope so.
by Nell Porter-Brown
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.”
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