Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Open Book: A New Nuclear Age
Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy’s latest book looks at the rising danger of a new arms race.
Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival
Without Christopher Marlowe, there might not have been a Bard.
Matt Levine's Bloomberg Finance Column Makes Money Funny
Matt Levine’s spunky Bloomberg column
Will the U.S. Dollar Always Be So Powerful?
The preeminence of U.S. currency at risk
Harvard Summer Reading Picks | 2025
The wealth gap, shamanism, the life of David Nathan, and more
David Leo Rice on 'The Berlin Wall'
David Leo Rice explores the strange, unseen forces shaping our world.
A Magna Carta at Harvard Law School
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
Filmmaker Salvador Litvaks Jewish Movies
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
Publications by Harvard Authors Spring 2025: New Releases
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more