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
In Egypt, Doors Closing
Leslie T. Change ’91 explores the lives of three women in the Egyptian textile industry.
Who Was John Greenleaf Whittier?
Homes of the poet and abolitionist, whose verses were said to have inspired Abraham Lincoln.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Making the Public Record Public
Harvard legal database released
by Max J. Krupnick
Spellbound on Stage
Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Essential Educator for His Time
A life of Princeton’s Bill Bowen
by Howard Gardner
The Happy Warrior Redux
Hubert Humphrey’s liberalism reconsidered
A Dogged Observer
Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.
by Max J. Krupnick
Off the Shelf
Revolutionizing French fashion, early Chinese writing, and more
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.
by Craig Lambert
Fictions about the Forces Driving Migration
Glenda Carpio on the new migration narrative
by Nina Pasquini