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
A Conversation with Mia Alvar ’00
The fiction writer talks about her short-story collection, In the Country.
by Sophia Nguyen
Celebrating Alice
Houghton Library exhibition chronicles 150 years of Alice in Wonderland.
by Zara Zhang
The Art of Healing
This fall, Harvard Medical School will launch a new program to promote the arts and humanities.
by Zara Zhang
Open Book: The Photographer’s Art
Robin Kelsey probes the place of photography within art.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
The Ascent of Man
Tall tales from biology’s Wild West
by Katherine Xue
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Young T.S. Eliot
A rediscovery of the emerging poet
by Adam Kirsch
Crimson “Bodice-Rippers”
From lawyering to a literary life.
by Sophia Nguyen
Craig Lambert’s “Shadow Work”
A Harvard Magazine alumnus on the new world of “middle-class serfdom”
by John S. Rosenberg