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
“I Got Race”
A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.
True Lies
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
by Casey N. Cep
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Dark Side of Boston
“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
by Nell Porter-Brown
Zora Neale Hurston in the Spotlight
Fresh efforts to understand the writer’s history and craft
by Brandon J. Dixon
Slightly Supernatural
In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.
by Lydialyle Gibson
We Would Have Known
A sweeping history of the idea of privacy in America
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Cold Comforts
Keith Gessen’s second novel deftly interweaves politics and personal history.
by Maggie Doherty
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words