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
All the World’s a Page
New e-books bring Shakespeare to life.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Cancer Chronicle
Artist Matt Freedman ’78 confronts adenoid cystic carcinoma.
“Chorus of Soloists”
The Chinese people’s individual acts of self-transformation
Rhode Island Blues
Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”
by Craig Lambert
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard Library to Help Preserve Tibetan Literary Heritage
Ten million pages of Tibetan literature will be stored in the library’s Digital Repository Services.
by Francesca Annic...
Genius at the School Gates
Radcliffe Institute panel discusses the place of women writers.
Harvard’s Literary Arts Celebrated in Inaugural Festival
Jamaica Kincaid and Margaret Atwood bookend a three-day exploration of literary life.
A Mystical Poet and An American Novelist
Donald Revell and Andrea Barrett to speak at PBK Literary Exercises