Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Author and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams finds beauty in the world around us.
Fredrik Logevall, “JFK: Coming of Age…” excerpt
An unusual senior thesis
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
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.
Photographer Mark Erickson’s street scenes of 1990s Vietnam
Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew
by Dan Kelly
Dan Chiasson's Poetry and Criticism
Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers
Excerpt from Mirim Udel’s book “Honey on the Page”
Miriam Udel’s passion for children and Yiddish children’s literature
Review of Martin Puchner’s “The Language of Thieves”
A German American scholar is unsettled by an ancestor’s secret.