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.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Review of Kimball and Coquillette, “The Intellectual Sword,” by Lincoln Caplan
The making of the modern Harvard Law School
Adventure writer Dave Roberts
David Roberts: A lifetime of adventures, risks, and rewards
Robert Frank at the Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts
“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art
Paul Farmer on the West Africa Ebola Epidemic
The 2014 epidemic was rooted in centuries of exploitation and war, Paul Farmer argues.
See Their Faces
Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
Publishing The Harvard Advocate Despite the Pandemic
The coronavirus delays—but can’t stop—the revered literary magazine.
Ross Douthat’s conservative conservatism, a profile by Lydialyle Gibson
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s journey through American decadence and upheaval
Lorenzo Tañada
Brief life of a Philippine patriot: 1898-1992
Photographer Mark Erickson’s street scenes of 1990s Vietnam
Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew
by Dan Kelly