Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Being Undocumented in America
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s writing aims to challenge assumptions.
Happenings in Hartford
Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more
The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes
Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir
The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
Pinned in Memory
Susan Rubin Suleiman’s memoir of a life in Nazi Hungary—and after
Off the Shelf
In love with Harvard Square, the invention of ICUs, Seamus Heaney
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
by Bailey Trela
The Modern World Reconceived
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
It's Still Hard for Women in Science
New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld