Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
In her memoir All That's Unseen, Emilee Hackney explores religion, friendship, and home.
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
From Susan Ware, a new story of U.S. women’s suffrage struggle
Fresh portraits of U.S. foot soldiers for women’s right to vote
Excerpt from Anne Harrington’s “Mind Fixers”
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words