Books & Literary Life


Faith through Film

The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies

by Max J. Krupnick

For the Homies

In José Olivarez’s poetry, the political is personal.

by Josie Abugov

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Happenings in Hartford

Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more

by Nell Porter-Brown

The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes

Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press

The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.

by Craig Lambert

Pinned in Memory

Susan Rubin Suleiman’s memoir of a life in Nazi Hungary—and after

Off the Shelf

In love with Harvard Square, the invention of ICUs, Seamus Heaney

Stories of a Not-So-Distant War

Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction

by Bailey Trela

The Modern World Reconceived

Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”

by J. Bradford Delong

Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland

In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground

by Marilynn Richtarik