Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Being Undocumented in America
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s writing aims to challenge assumptions.
Excerpt from “How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration”
Unpacking “what art does to us”
Mark Dery on Edward Gorey, reviewed by Spencer Lee Lenfield
An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
The Examined Life
Why is it that so many doctors feel compelled to write, and that so many do, so compellingly?
Delba Winthrop on Aristotle and Democracy
The Kenan professor of government’s story of a dissertation published 44 years after it was accepted
“Austerity—When It Works and When It Doesn’t” reviewed by Idrees Kahloon
Economists revisit an unsettled economic policy.
Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”
…and a possible clue in the stacks
Tale of Genji Illustrated
A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words