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
Always Leaning Into Wrongdoing
Stephen Greenblatt explores the myths and meanings of Adam and Eve.
by Elizabeth Stoke
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
A Book by Its Cover
Embroidery fit for a prince
by Christy Gordon Baty , Erin Harvey Moody
Tracy K. Smith ’94 Named U.S. Poet Laureate
The announcement comes at a busy time for the writer, who is at work on two operas and will soon publish her fifth verse collection, Wade in the Water.
by Sophia Nguyen
Poetry, Voiced
In the Woodberry Poetry Room, a landmark audio collection waits to be heard.
by Sophia Nguyen
A Postmodern Youth
Tahmima Anam’s Bengal trilogy finds a resting place.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
1760s Extracurriculars
The diary of a “unexceptional collegian”—attending class, or not
“Class Cluelessness”
A review of Joan Williams’s powerful book on the resentments reshaping American politics
by Andrea Louise C...
Off the Shelf
Beach reading, the West, segregation, gardening with children, and more
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words