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
Reexamining History
Photographer Diana Mara Henry ’69 publishes her collection Women on the Move.
by Kristen Strezo
Invigorating the Humanities
Facing declining enrollments, the humanities seek to reinvent themselves.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
“Global Whitemanism”
The capitalist economy and dark dreams of the slaveholding South
by Michael Bernath
A Bloodbath, Averted
An alumna recounts a refugee crisis in South Africa.
Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude
On crafting a liberal-arts education by reading the classics and shaping one's life course
by Nannerl O. Keohane
A Nearly Perfect Book
The poetry critic, the publisher, and the art of bookmaking in a digital era
by Nathan Heller
Arthur Rosenthal, Longtime Harvard University Press Director, Has Died
His focus on publishing scholarly titles with broader, mass-market appeal helped put HUP back in the black.
On Reading Well
An excerpt from Reuben Brower’s The Fields of Light: An Experiment in Critical Reading