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
“Once Upon a Time” in Translation
A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Pound, On the Record
A Carpenter Center exhibition traces the history of a once-banned poem.
by Lydialyle Gibson
An Adventure On Wheels
In 20 States On Wheels, Harvard students celebrate wheelchair travel.
by Zara Zhang
A Lover of All Things English
Erin Moore ’98 clarifies Britishisms and Americanisms in That’s Not English.
by Zara Zhang
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Olmsted's parks, Putin and Ukraine, climate shock, and more
Mathematics from the Inside Out
Two practitioners consider the enterprise of pure mathematics.
by Avner Ash
Not Holding Out for a Hero
A comics artist tries his hand at a new story.
by Sophia Nguyen
Empathy and Imagination
What animals can teach us
by Nell Porter-Brown
A Magnet for Old Men
A Harvard humorist reveals her superpower.