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
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“Gorey’s World”
Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum
by Nell Porter-Brown
The Low End Theory
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
by Jesse McCarthy
Prodigies’ Progress
Parents and superkids, then and now
by Ann Hulbert
Robotic Healthcare
A doctor’s take on the destruction of medicine
A Novel Take on Eternal Life
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
America’s Little Giant
Lincoln Caplan reviews Noah Feldman’s The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
by Lincoln Caplan
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
From Here to Timbuktu
A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.
by Nell Porter-Brown