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.
David Barrett reports on New York City’s birds
A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community
Walter Johnson writes about “The Broken Heart of America”
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
Rebecca Henderson, “Reimagining Capitalism” to save the planet
The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Novelist Paul Yoon and “Run Me to Earth”
Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.
by Bailey Trela
“The Equivalents,” by Maggie Doherty, reviewed by Susan Ware
From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute
by Susan Ware
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.
Lizabeth Cohen Bancroft Prize
The urban historian is honored—for the second time.
Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse
Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity