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
A Literary Garden
Ilona Bell's Yard of Allusions
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Philosophic Fun
A Theory of Justice as musical comedy, and the class of ’44
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Jewish Jokes, Theoretically
Does in-group humor displace political action?
by Daniel Klein
How to Not Be Clueless
Navigating the smartphone world
by Isabel Ruane
Harvard Square, the Novel
A café-goers' view of Cambridge, a generation ago
by Jesse Kornbluth
Literary Gardening
A Berkshire yard that recalls poetry, fiction, and drama
by Craig Lambert
Addressing a Decline in Humanities Enrollment
How to reinvigorate the humanities at Harvard is the subject of new faculty reports
Bicoastal Poet, Beat Reporter
August Kleinzahler and Linda Greenhouse to speak at Commencement-week PBK Literary Exercises