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
Thinking Outside the Pack
Robert Proctor’s Golden Holocaust urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.
Owl, Pussycat
A bicentennial exhibition features the little-known, masterful animal artistry of Edward Lear.
by Christopher Reed
The Case for Compromise
Continuous campaigning and gridlocked governing in American politics
by Amy Gutmann , Dennis Thompson
Radcliffe Institute Fellow Trethewey Named Poet Laureate
Natasha Trethewey was a 2001 Radcliffe Institute Fellow.
Kay Ryan’s “Graduation Garland,” Derek Bok on Fixing American Democracy
Poet and orator highlight Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises.
Angell, Hochschild, Seeger, Seidel Honored
Alumni recognized by American Academy of Arts and Letters
Harvard Poets, by Ear
Showcasing works from the past century-plus
The Libraries’ Rocky Transition
The threat of library staff layoffs, absent details, leads to consternation and protests.
Harvard Portrait: Amanda Claybaugh
Meet the expert on nineteenth-century novels and reformist writings.
Salute Flag and Shack!
A star-spangled Colonial find and a book honoring Motif No. 1