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
Andy Borowitz Loosens Up the Library of America
A new anthology of humorous writing joins the shelf of illustrious literary classics.
Beauty, Bounty, Brio, Buoyancy
Seamus Heaney introduces an anniversary album.
Aulus and Me
Reading at the College, and in ancient Rome
by Madeleine Schwartz
The “Steel Factory”
Ezra Vogel’s monumental biography of Deng Xiaopeng, the doctrinaire pragmatist who modernized China.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections.
Financial Reform: The Doggerel
An ode to transparency
Kennedy: Color Line Persists in U.S. Politics
Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's book calls Obama “enigmatic” on race.
Clayton Christensen Questions Higher Education's Future
The HBS professor predicts that online education will disrupt old models.
Esmeralda Santiago Overcomes Stroke to Publish Epic Novel
The new historical novel by the Harvard-educated author has earned wide praise.
(Un)common Sense
Historian Sophia Rosenfeld examines the origins of politicians' appeals to "common sense."