Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Being Undocumented in America
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s writing aims to challenge assumptions.
Off the Shelf
Revolutionizing French fashion, early Chinese writing, and more
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet” probes medicine—and life.
The Immigrant Experience
Glenda Carpio on the new migration narrative
Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70
Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel
No Sleepy Coastal Town
Visiting Portsmouth in winter
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
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