Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
America’s Past, Opera's Future: 11 New Books from Harvard Authors
These newly released novels, histories, and memoirs grapple with identity in all its forms.
"“I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak”
Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
The Renovated Harvard Coop
Adapting to new conditions—but books are still a “core business”
Life After Brain Injury
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
Supreme Court Brinkmanship
Linda Greenhouse on the 2020-2021 Supreme Court—and the changes to come
How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Getting Close to the Past
A powerful public history of slavery in America
Namwali Serpell’s Novel-In-Progress
The acclaimed author and English professor will explore mourning and reunion in The Furrows: An Elegy.
Origin Stories
Bow and Arrow’s mechanic, James Agee’s creative turbulence
by Primus VI
Open Book: Hiding in a Tick Mattress
Wilfred Rembert’s escape from a lynching