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
Greenblatt, Smith Honored with Pulitzer Prizes
The professor wins for general nonfiction, the 1994 alumna for poetry; two former Nieman Fellows also honored.
Class Reports, Redux
In a new novel, Deborah Copaken Kogan ’88 explores mid-life College reunions.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Two-Term President, Two-Time Poet Laureate
Derek Bok and Kay Ryan featured at the 2012 Phi Beta Kappa exercises
National Book Critics Circle Honors Three
Harvard affiliates Jasanoff, Pearlman, Silvers recognized
The Era of Inequality
Excerpt from The Great Divergence by Timothy Noah ’80
Cold Meets Flame
The prophet (Gibran) and the president (Eliot), plus Arnoldia turns 100.
Father-Son Venture
Autism tightened the bond between Tom and Ezra Fields-Meyer and led to a moving book.
by Isabel Ruane
History Detectives
Utpal Sandesara and Tom Wooten uncover a dam-disaster cover-up.
by Katherine Xue
Lingua Branca
New book shows how baseball words apply to all of life.