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
A Higher Degree of Responsibility
On the history and potential of values-driven enterprises
by Geoffrey Jones
Emily Dickinson—Dashed
Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
Sargent’s Other Sides
A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.
by Nancy Walecki
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Where We Went Wrong
A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century
Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists
An historian, a poet, and a translator
by Lydialyle Gibson
America’s Riven Politics
A Harvard Magazine Q & A with Evan Osnos ’98, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury