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
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012
by Jennifer Burns
Black Students Speak
Jarvis Givens on two centuries of African American education
by Lydialyle Gibson
The New Little Magazines
Keeping literature and long-form journalism alive
by Nancy Walecki
Journey into Quabbin Reservoir’s Hidden Past
Rambling around the Quabbin Reservoir
by Nell Porter-Brown
Speaking Volumes
Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection
by Nell Porter-Brown
Getting Close, in Selma
Acting at a moment of conscience
by Drew Gilpin Faust
State-Sponsored Discrimination
The role of zoing law and housing in making America more unequal—and what to do about it
The Men Who Can’t Be Saved
Novelist Ben Purkert’s playfully serious look at masculinity
by Stuart Miller
Off the Shelf
Recent books on camping outdoors, economic opportunity, the women of NOW, and more
Life’s Blueprints
The development of developmental biology
by Jonathan Shaw