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
Antique Treasures
Rare books and ephemera at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
by Nell Porter-Brown
In “Little Fires Everywhere,” a Custody Battle Ignites the Comfortable Suburbs
Celeste Ng’s nimble second novel traces a cross-cultural drama in her Midwestern hometown.
by Sophia Nguyen
In Danielle Allen’s “Cuz,” Caught Between Two Justice Systems
Allen’s new book excoriates both the justice system and a parallel universe of gang rule.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
A Life of Adventure and Delight
Akhil Sharma is less interested in ideology in itself than in politics as a backdrop to emotional conflict.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Back-to-School Bookshelf
Derek Bok and other scholars weigh in on improving universities and colleges—and why that’s hard to do.
by John S. Rosenberg
Seeing the the Invisible World of Microbes
On Earth, microbes run the show.
by Jonathan Shaw
Leaders Born in Darkness
The Business School’s Nancy Koehn analyzes the personal stakes that propel leaders.
“Patchwork Futures”
Sci-fi meets the political thriller.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Off the Shelf
John Kenneth Galbraith’s letters, Linda Greenhouse, color in art, and more