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.
Filmmaker Salvador Litvaks Jewish Movies
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
Publications by Harvard Authors Spring 2025: New Releases
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
Children's Books from Ann Kim Ha
Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books
Chinese Immigrants in Early America
Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction
The Franklin Stove—A Historical Climate Change Adaptation
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
Harvard Percussionist and Composer Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
Abraham Verghese Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
Physician and author will address the graduation exercises May 29.
Recent Publications Harvard Authors Spring 2025
Artmaking under duress, designing the UN HQ, Booker White’s blues, and more
The Supreme Court and Mass Incarceration
A legal scholar’s harsh assessment of the Supreme Court’s rulings on crime