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
Rethinking Libraries for a Digital Future
Highlights from the digital collections of the Harvard libraries, and video humor
Inner Vision
Francie Randolph ’87 has combined Braille and J.K. Rowling's 2008 Harvard address to create a limited-edition book.
by Craig Lambert
Theatrical Chiaroscuro
Fredric Wilson’s book The Theatrical World of Angus McBean collects British midcentury theater images.
by Craig Lambert
An Ageless Voice on Aging
Adam Kirsch review Maurice Charney’s Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare.
by Adam Kirsch
A Man in Motion
An excerpt from Tocqueville's Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Pleasure by Proxy
Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.
by Craig Lambert
Harvard Anthropologist's Book Inspires Oscar-Nominated Film
Kimberly Theidon's book on female victims of Peruvian violence was the basis for The Milk of Sorrow, nominated for best foreign-language film.
Harvard Headlines: Fiction by E.O. Wilson, David Cutler on Healthcare, and More
Our roundup also includes a New Yorker profile of U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan and a review of the work of architect Jeanne Gang, both Harvard graduates.