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
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Recent books with Harvard connections
And the War Came
At its sesquicentennial, a fresh, revealing narrative of the advent of the Civil War
by Michael Bernath
Bishop Redux
New collections of poems, prose, and correspondence by Elizabeth Bishop
by Adam Kirsch
On Behavioral Ethics
Analyzing cognition and behaviors to explore how individuals and organizations conduct themselves relative to ethical standards
Nabokov's Butterflies
Harvard biologist Naomi Pierce confirms the Russian author's theory about the winged creatures' migration and evolution.
Rogoff Honored for Fostering Financial Security
The Harvard economist shares an award for scholarly writing that fosters the nation's financial well-being.
“You’re, At Best, a Punk”
Learning the rules of life in prison: an excerpt from the memoir of former prison librarian Avi Steinberg ’02
Independent Historian
Daniel Rasmussen's new book rescues the forgotten facts of the largest slave revolt in U.S. history.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Books behind Bars
Avi Steinberg's memoir of life as a prison librarian
by Nell Porter-Brown
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections