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

A Literary Wake for the Obama Era

Harvard Review editor Major Jackson, RI ’07, linked 200 poets in this verse tribute to the president.

by Sophia Nguyen

A Certain Slant of Light

In his film A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies illuminates Emily Dickinson’s daily life and eternal poetry.

by Sophia Nguyen

Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes

Journalist, novelist, and social scientist honored

by Oset Babür

Exclusivity, from the Inside

The Undergraduate wrestles with The Advocate’s exclusive comp process. 

by Lily Scherlis

Yellow Wolf's Silence: The Untold Nez Perce War Story

Brief life of a Native American witness to history: c. 1855-1935

by Daniel J. Sharfstein

Humanizing Finance

A Business School professor ties finance and humanities together.

Off the Shelf

A natural history of Martha’s Vineyard, and other books with Harvard connections

Making Liberal Democracies

Scholarly lessons from Europe prove pertinent today.

by Daniel J. Solomon

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Logic Is a Little Magazine That Asks Big Questions about the Tech Industry

Four alums foster Logic, a new magazine focusing on a complex tech world on fire.

by Oset Babür