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.
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
Children's Books from Ann Kim Ha
Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books
Chinese Immigrants in Early America
Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction
The Franklin Stove—A Historical Climate Change Adaptation
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
Harvard Percussionist and Composer Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
Abraham Verghese Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
Physician and author will address the graduation exercises May 29.
Recent Publications Harvard Authors Spring 2025
Artmaking under duress, designing the UN HQ, Booker White’s blues, and more
The Supreme Court and Mass Incarceration
A legal scholar’s harsh assessment of the Supreme Court’s rulings on crime
Leslie Jamison on Isolation, Empathy, and Selfhood
The essayist on isolation, empathy, and selfhood
Essays from Edward Tenner
Essayist Edward Tenner on technology’s pitfalls