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
Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70
Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel
by Lydialyle Gibson
No Sleepy Coastal Town
Visiting Portsmouth in winter
by Nell Porter-Brown
Democracy Endangered
American democracy endangered by minority rule
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Living the Science Fiction Fantasy
Novelist Catherine Asaro’s space operas
by Lydialyle Gibson
Educational Ascent
Ruth Simmons on her ascent from sharecropper’s daughter to scholar
Tom Hyry
What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism
by Max J. Krupnick
Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence
Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
How Revolutions Happen
Robert Darnton on the origins of the French Revolutionary temperament