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
Megan Marshall ’77 Wins Pulitzer for Biography
Damrosch, O’Brien, and Adams named finalists.
Old Lampooner
Houghton Library celebrates William Makepeace Thackeray.
by Christopher Reed
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
The Anti-Superheroine
“Starling” can handle thugs and palookas, but not daily life.
by Craig Lambert
Baseball by the Numbers
Economist Andrew Zimbalist analyzes the sabermetric revolution
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Toward Cultural Citizenship
New gateways into the humanities for students “still fully molten as human beings”
by Jonathan Shaw
“A More Perfect Heaven”
At Harvard, Dava Sobel discusses the conversation that convinced Copernicus to publish his lifework.
Biographer and Booklover Justin Kaplan: 1925-2014
In tribute to an old friend
“A Fighting Faith”
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s "fighting faith" in liberalism, revealed in his letters