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
Quiet, Please
Susan Cain foments the “Quiet Revolution.”
by Lydialyle Gibson
An “Enchanted Palace”
A humanistic “masterclass” for Houghton Library's seventy-fifth anniversary
Desire and Design
Probing the primal drives of a landmark architect
Reality Fiction
Elif Batuman’s novel The Idiot reflects on her Harvard freshman year.
by Madeleine Schwartz
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Wordsworth seen anew, and other recent books
Holding Emotion “At an Observer's Distance”
Adam Kirsch reviews Megan Marshall’s biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
by Adam Kirsch
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
A Conservative Counterrevolution
The anti-democratic origins of the Constitution
by Lincoln Caplan
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words