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.

by Nina Pasquini , Nell Porter-Brown

Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”

…and a possible clue in the stacks

by Diane E. Booton

Dumbarton Oaks exhibit “Juggling the Middle Ages” is previewed

A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.

by Sophia Nguyen

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

“Time is Now: Photography in Baldwin’s Era” exhibit at the Carpenter Center

Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.

by Brandon J. Dixon

Changes at Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press director George Andreou on the future of academic publishing

by Oset Babür

Millicent Todd Bingham

Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar

by Julie Dobrow

A melting pot: Harvard’s 1968 football team

How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard

by George Howe Colt

Robert Coles and Atul Gawande on William Carlos Williams

Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams

Shane McCrae: the poet and his work

The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry

by Lydialyle Gibson