Books & Literary Life

Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.

Matt Levine's Bloomberg Finance Column Makes Money Funny

Matt Levine’s spunky Bloomberg column

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard University Press closes its display room

The Harvard University Press display room closes its doors.

An excerpt from "Jacob’s Cane"

Socialism as family inconvenience

Quotation Q and A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Amelia Lester named New Yorker managing editor

Amelia Lester ’05 is a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine.

The Last of His Kind: A new biography of mountaineer and photographer H. Bradfor

The life of mountaineer, pioneering aerial photographer, and Museum of Science leader H. Bradford Washburn, newly chronicled by fellow mountaineer David Roberts ’65.

David McCann wants sijo, an ancient form of Korean poetry, to catch on.

Professor David McCann wants an ancient form of Korean poetry to catch on the way haiku has.

Great books teach life lessons: Christopher Beha reads the Harvard Classics cove

A new book documents a Princetonian’s year-long immersion in the Harvard Classics, the venerable "Five-foot Shelf" of Great Books.

Feeding an Addiction

Enlisting the food industry in the fight against obesity

Letters & Letterman

Bill Scheft ‘79 writes comedy for David Letterman, as well as novels.

by Craig Lambert