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
Millicent Todd Bingham
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
by Julie Dobrow
The Players
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
by George Howe Colt
Medicine Minus Mythmaking
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Coming Apart Together
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Weight of Scale
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Devil and Philip Johnson
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Photography in Baldwin’s Era
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
by Brandon J. Dixon
From the Archives: Image and the Arc of Feeling
Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
by Craig Lambert