Books & Literary Life

Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.

Being Undocumented in America

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s writing aims to challenge assumptions. 

by Nina Pasquini

The Evolution of Human Fathers

Exploring the evolutionary biology of human fathers as caretakers

by Richard G. Bribiescas

Off the Shelf

Nicholas Kristof reporting, why voting matters, becoming famous, and more in books

What Does it Mean to be a Progressive Jew Today?

How should Progressive Jews reconcile the changing nature of Israel today as state and ideal?

In Egypt, Doors Closing

Leslie T. Change ’91 explores the lives of three women in the Egyptian textile industry.

Civil War American Writer and Abolitionist 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