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.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Ann Forsyth reviews “Saving America’s Cities” by Lizabeth Cohen
In the history of urban renewal, a glimmer of the possibilities of social policy today
by Ann Forsyth
Special Advertising Section: Harvard Authors' Bookshelf
Calling all Harvard Authors! Advertise your book in time for the holidays.
Ellen Newbold La Motte
Brief life of a bold activist: 1873-1961
Excerpt from Suzanne Preston Blier, “Picasso’s ‘Demoiselles’”
A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Edward S. Steinfeld reviews Ezra Vogel’s “China and Japan: Facing History”
The parallel, perilous, histories of China and Japan
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
MV Mycological’s shiitakes
The farmers at MV Mycological hope so.
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
by Jacob Sweet