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
Nathaniel Bowditch
Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839
by Tamara Plakins ...
Guilt-Free Childbirth
Strong words from a combatant in the childbirth wars
Brain Food
In Andrea Tsurumi's comics and illustrated work, life is observed and shown as absurd.
by Samantha Maldonado
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
With Seamus Heaney in Elysium
A new translation from the Aeneid
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
26 Ways to Get into Harvard
A nitty-gritty guide by a Nieman Fellow and his team.
Bard in the Yard
Celebrating four centuries of Shakespeare at Harvard
by Olivia Munk
Preserving a Muse
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem muse was preserved by philanthropist Caroline Emmerton.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Labor of Love
Fred Crafts ’50 combines memoir and appreciation of Cape Cod’s natural wonders in Remembering Monomoy.
by Jean Martin