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.
Amartya Sen, a Memoir
The book covers the first thirty years of the Nobel-prize winning economist’s life.
by Sugata Bose
Re-remembering Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her unusually personal book on the holiday.
Open Book: the case for commitment
Pete Davis expands on his Commencement address.
Namwali Serpell
The professor of English is also a novelist and a critic.
Off the shelf: Recent books with Harvard connections
Tax follies, Thomas Sowell, Donald Hall, and more
A Surfing Author’s Children’s Book
In the swim with Bonnie Tsui
Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100
The first century of the Chinese Communist Party—and what impends
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
The founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner profiled
al-Hariri, a master storyteller
Brief life of a master storyteller
The Racial Tensions That Roiled Texas
Annette Gordon-Reed on the real history of Texas, and Juneteenth