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
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
Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Fiction from Fairy Tales
The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls
by Olivia Munk
Entering a New World
Navigating the challenges of caring for a child who is very ill
Remaking the Grid
Paolo Pasco and the art of making crosswords
by Oset Babür
An Empiricist on Art
Unpacking “what art does to us”
The Memorable Eccentric
An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections