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
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
Providence, R.I.
Car-free fun in downtown Providence
by Nell Porter-Brown
The Art of Protest
“It doesn’t even make sense to me that art and protest would be separate.”
by Lydialyle Gibson
“Presenting Jane” at Harvard
A rediscovered short film, with new commentary by Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery ’49, Litt.D. ’01, gives a glimpse of the New York School's early days.
by Matthew Browne
Lines of Friendship
Poet Jean Valentine on literary companionship
by Lydialyle Gibson
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Fusion Fantasy
Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.
by Sophia Nguyen
Toward Democracy in America
Reviewing a masterwork on the past, and future, of democracy