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
Poetic Paschen
The Chicago poet has spread the good wordings via book, CD—and subway.
by Craig Lambert
Medical Alumnus Wins Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. '00, is honored for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
Echoes of the Central Valley
Chicano writer Manuel Muñoz ’94 mines the “humanizing effect of literature.”
by Nell Porter-Brown
Do or Die
Sugata Bose reviews Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, by Joseph Lelyveld.
by Sugata Bose
Honeybee House Hunting
An excerpt from Thomas D. Seeley's new book, Honeybee Democracy
Pride of the Indian College
Geraldine Brooks's new novel stars Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, Harvard's first Native American graduate, A.B. 1665.
by Amelia Atlas
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Lepore and Longfellow
The historian reexamines the poet.
Frank Rich to Leave New York Times
The political and cultural columnist is headed to New York magazine.
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words