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
“A Nation Arguing with Its Conscience”
Deliberative democracy, philosophical pragmatism, and Barack Obama's conception of American governance
by James T. Kloppenberg
Alice Paul
Brief life of a pioneering suffragist: 1885-1977
by Mary Walton
Funniest Pages
Rick Meyerowitz’s Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is a compendium of the best pieces from the National Lampoon.
by Craig Lambert
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Noir Romantic
Romanticism, a new collection by poet April Bernard, mixes disillusionment with emotion and playfulness.
by David Scribner
Dickinson’s Trinity
In a new critical work, Helen Vendler assesses one of Emily Dickinson’s deceptively simple early poems.
Mario Vargas Llosa Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The writer was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1999.
Remembering a Harvard Square Fixture
A new history of Design Research remembers how the store brought modern design to Harvard Square and the United States.
Delving into Pain
A new book by Melanie Thernstrom ’87 explores chronic pain, in the author's own life, across societies, and through history.
A Dean's Summer Reading
Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow discusses what's on her reading list, as well as the line between professional and pleasure reading, and her family's literary history.