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
Following the Monuments Men
See the routes four Harvard-affiliated Monuments Men followed as they traveled through Europe rescuing looted art from the Nazis.
Atul Gawande's New Book, Reviewed
The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.
The Art Army
Harvard’s Monuments Men at war
Woolf Hunters
Rare-book dealers Jon and Margaret Richardson are fans of the Bloomsbury Group.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
From a Rebound to a Slam Dunk
Sportscaster J.B. Brown writes about his "Role of a Lifetime"
by Melanie E. Long
Intellectual Entrepreneurs
Three Harvard Advocate alumni helped found a highbrow literary periodical.
Anatomy as Entertainment
An excerpt from A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience, by Charles Gross ’57
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
What This Country Needs
David Warsh reviews This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff.
by David Warsh
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections