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
Tiny Brontës
Miniature manuscript books by Charlotte Brontë
by Christopher Reed
Under the Bar
An Upstairs at the Pudding girlhood, and undergraduate impresario Peter Sellars at Adams House
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Persistence of Place
Sociologist Robert J. Sampson documents enduring neighborhood differences in Chicago.
The Chinese “Good Life”
Arthur Kleinman and colleagues explore the Chinese people's yearnings after a century of upheaval and disasters.
Gould Goods
Popular works by evolutionary biologist and baseball fan Stephen Jay Gould back in print
Wanderers from Sirius
Katrina Roberts’s poems suggest that life springs from stardust.
by Craig Lambert
Chapter & Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Mysteries and Masterpieces
Adam Kirsch reads the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library—the latest stage in the “American conquest of the Middle Ages”
by Adam Kirsch
Harvard Affiliates’ Books Draw Press Attention
Adam Kirsch, Mark Whitaker, and Niall Ferguson have new books out.