Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Tara Menon’s Debut Novel Combines Friendship, Grief, and Climate Disaster
The popular Harvard English professor published Under Water this spring.
The Layered Histories in Black Family Keepsakes
Tiya Miles traces a mother and daughter’s story through a cotton sack.
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.
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
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
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