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
Letters & Letterman
Bill Scheft ‘79 writes comedy for David Letterman, as well as novels.
Cultures in Conflict
Paul M. Barrett reviews “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West,” by Christopher Caldwell ’83
Shuttered Behind Bars
In a new book, photographer Bruce Jackson presents old ID photo portraits from an Arkansas prison.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
"Days With the Family Realist"
A poem for the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
The Tall Book, by Arianne Cohen, describes the lives of tall people.
Arianne Cohen ’03 celebrates “life from on high” in a new book that discusses tall people's perspectives and prospects.
The Bible and the Almanac
How Pete Seeger got his start: an excerpt from Alec Wilkinson's new biography, The Protest Singer
Music, Taken Personally
A music critic reviews composer John Adams’s memoir.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Vistas of Perfection
A profile of writer James Agee, at Harvard and beyond
by Adam Kirsch