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
Tom Reiss ’86 Wins Pulitzer for Biography
Bailyn, Kayyem, Wen named finalists.
Harvard Portrait: Martin Puchner
The English professor has already written three books and edited the 6,000-page third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
A Scientist in Full
The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz
by James Hanken
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Like Garlic or Burning Matches
A new book traces napalm's invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah
Princess Not-So-Charming
A fairy tale for today’s world
Vita: John Usher Monro
Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002
by Toni-Lee Capossela
Richard Blanco: “Navigating Identities”
The inaugural poet speaks about being a gay Cuban American.
Harvard Portrait: Abigail Donovan and Laura Prager
The pediatric psychiatrists’ book depicts emergency-room experiences with mentally ill children.