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
Reform School
Harvard’s long-closed Social Museum promoted progressive values.
by Christopher Reed
Chapter and Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
America the Politically Unequal
Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.
by Andrea Louise C...
Off the Shelf
Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections
Fiction in Counterpoint
A novel, Sound, notated like a musical score
by Craig Lambert
Over and Done
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on life's liberating exits
Two Steps to Free Will
Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.
by Craig Lambert
Wow. Huh?
A World Palindrome Champion, a sleuthing architect, and Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner
Chapter and Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections