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.
A Higher Degree of Responsibility
On the history and potential of values-driven enterprises
Emily Dickinson—Dashed
Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
From War Zones to the North Shore
A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
How humans hybridize their civilizations
by Adam Kirsch
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Recent books with Harvard connections
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.
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Recent books with Harvard connections
Where We Went Wrong
A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century