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.
Bringing Korean Stories to Life
Composer Julia Riew writes the musicals she needed to see.
Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival
Without Christopher Marlowe, there might not have been a Bard.
Matt Levine's Bloomberg Finance Column Makes Money Funny
Matt Levine’s spunky Bloomberg column
Will the U.S. Dollar Always Be So Powerful?
The preeminence of U.S. currency at risk
Harvard Summer Reading Picks | 2025
The wealth gap, shamanism, the life of David Nathan, and more
David Leo Rice on 'The Berlin Wall'
David Leo Rice explores the strange, unseen forces shaping our world.
A Magna Carta at Harvard Law School
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
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