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
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
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
World Music 2.0
In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.
by Lara Pellegrinelli
“Going Aboard?”
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
by Evander Price
Honors for Harvardians
Last week, three Harvard affiliates were awarded the National Humanities Medal and eight were long-listed for the National Book Awards.
by Sophia Nguyen
“Beyond Words”: Beauty and History Converge at Houghton
A new exhibit highlights how medieval monasticism’s “cult of the book” transmitted beauty and knowledge to the modern world.
by Lily Scherlis
Illuminations
Little-known treasures from Houghton Library and other collections
by John S. Rosenberg
Sesquicentennial Soirée
The Harvard Advocate turns 150.
by Madeleine Schwartz
The Democracy of Everyday Life
Nancy Rosenblum studies neighbors and the power of proximity.
by Lydialyle Gibson