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
Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street
Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.
by Craig Lambert
Pictures in the Square
A new book of photographs tells Harvard Square’s history since the 1950s. Test your own Square knowledge for a chance to win a copy of the book.
by Craig Lambert
29-29, Forever
A new DVD and book capture the legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale game.
The High-rise Ecotopia
An excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen ’78
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Again, A Dangerous Art
Adam Kirsch reviews Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel ’57
by Adam Kirsch
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Women in a Woeful World
A review of Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
by Rohini Pande
Extension School Centennial
A new history by its dean, Michael Shinagel, documents the school's emphasis on accessibility and continuing education.
by Krysten A. Keches
For the Joy of It
A new book relates the history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.