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
An Empiricist on Art
Unpacking “what art does to us”
From the Archives: The Examined Life
Why is it that so many doctors feel compelled to write, and that so many do, so compellingly?
by Jonathan Shaw
A Missive from Harvey Mansfield
The Kenan professor of government’s story of a dissertation published 44 years after it was accepted
Glorious “Genji”
A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Uses—and Abuses—of Austerity
Economists revisit an unsettled economic policy.
by Idrees Kahloon
A Millennial Mystery
…and a possible clue in the stacks
by Diane E. Booton
The Juggler’s Tale
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
by Sophia Nguyen
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections