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
Lest We Forget
Harvard’s World War I participants are honored in an updated volume edited by Douglass M. Carver ’59.
Combatants
A World War I Harvard aviator, plus a Game-worthy car buff and his wheels
Open Book: GOP Polarities
In To Make Men Free, Heather Cox Richardson seeks to explain the back-and-forth history of Republican Party goals.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Music, Noted
The recording of songs and sounds past—a history of musical notation in the West
by Anna Zayaruznaya
Extracurriculars
Events on and off campus during November and December
Yearning to Escape
James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing
The New Histories
Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Caribbean Zola
Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.
by Craig Lambert
Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal
The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.
by Laura Levis