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
American Ratification
The great experiment in constitution-making
by Jack Rakove
A Story Curled Inside
"In Motion: The Experience of Travel," by Tony Hiss, makes the case for mindful attention to one's environs—even the most ordinary.
Reinterpreting Roe v. Wade
Longtime Supreme Court watcher Linda Greenhouse ’68 and Yale legal historian Reva Siegel offer new insight about the landmark court case's effect on the abortion debate and American political discourse.
by Madeleine Schwartz
What Books Are For
The Radcliffe Institute’s “Why Books?” conference touches on a timely theme.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Putting the Tea Party in Perspective
Harvard historian Jill Lepore puts the modern day Tea Party movement into historical perspective.
From Hull House to the White House
James Kloppenberg explicates Barack Obama’s perspective on the American democratic ideal of melding individual views and interests into the common good.
by James T. Kloppenberg
Comedy, Harvard, and Hollywood
Three articles from Harvard Magazine’s archives explore the roles Harvard alumni have played in the entertainment industry and their influence on comedy.
Video: Modern-Day Romanticism
In her latest book of poems, April Bernard aims to capture the intensity of the Romantic Era. Watch as she discusses, and reads from, her work.
Y Is for “Yell”
A sampler from the Harvard University Library's online collection Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History.
by Christopher Reed
A Renaissance for Medieval Classics
A new series from Harvard University Press reintroduces works that mattered in the Middle Ages. With excerpts from two of the works.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield