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
Brutish Beginnings
The “mixed multitudes” of early Colonial America—and the Native Americans
by Daniel K. Richter
Paradoxical Fables
Ben Loory's minimalist stories ambush the reader.
by David Updike
Brotherly Love
In Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History, George Howe Colt offers autobiography and biography both.
Toni Morrison: “Goodness Lurks Backstage”
The author discusses altruism and the literary imagination in the 2012 Ingersoll Lecture.
Vita: Alexandre Dumas
Brief life of the soldier who inspired The Count of Monte Cristo: 1762-1806
by Tom Reiss
Bluffer-in-Chief
In Evan Thomas's new biography, President Eisenhower emerges as a canny nuclear strategist.
Off the Shelf
Recent books by John Updike, Marjorie Garber, George Vaillant, Thomas McGraw, and others with Harvard connections
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Press Women
Ellen Faran ’73 and Gita Manaktala ’87 advance knowledge through publishing.
by Katherine Xue
Jorie Graham Wins Poetry Prize
The poet's book Places won the 2012 Forward prize for a poetry collection.