Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
These Harvard Mountaineers Braved Denali’s Wall of Ice
John Graham’s Denali Diary documents a dangerous and historic climb.
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
It's Still Hard for Women in Science
New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld
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
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum