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
Making a Bee Line
Thomas D. Seeley on the craft and science of bee hunting
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Business of Lies
Joseph Finder makes technology the texture of his new thriller, Guilty Minds.
by Bailey Trela
America's Higher-Education Agenda
A focused briefing on degree-attainment, democracy, and economic opportunity
by Clayton Spencer
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
A Literary Chameleon
Colson Whitehead ’91 plays for higher stakes in his new novel.
by Jesse McCarthy
Babar Comes to Houghton Library
Houghton hosts an exhibit of the green suit-wearing French elephant through August 31.
by Lydialyle Gibson
This Is How the World Ends
Thanks to Harvard, according to a new fantasy epic by Justin Cronin ’84
by Grayson Clary
The Comeback Kid
The post-Harvard hockey tales of Bill Keenan
by Bailey Trela
Whittling Down
Pre-Commencement, the Undergraduate assesses his unfinished works.
by Bailey Trela