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
Vita: Fanny Bullock Workman
Brief life of a feisty mountaineer: 1859-1925
A Long Way from Longwood
Excerpt from Harvard Medical School Dean Joseph Martin's memoir
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
India’s Sacred Geography
Diana Eck on Hindus' sacred geography
The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang
A gritty Western depicts a brief, violent crusade.
by Craig Lambert
Justice Falls Down
America’s flawed criminal justice system
Chapter and Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Out, Poetically
In a new book of poems, high-ranking editor Jonathan Galassi ’71 alludes to his homosexuality.
Focusing on the Tea Party
A new book by Harvard scholars Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson attracts attention as the presidential primary season begins.
Tiny Brontë, Big Price
Manuscript, sold for $1.1 million, leaves England; magazine complements books in Harvard collection.