Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
America’s Past, Opera's Future: 11 New Books from Harvard Authors
These newly released novels, histories, and memoirs grapple with identity in all its forms.
The Examined Life
Why is it that so many doctors feel compelled to write, and that so many do, so compellingly?
Delba Winthrop on Aristotle and Democracy
The Kenan professor of government’s story of a dissertation published 44 years after it was accepted
Tale of Genji Illustrated
A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
“Austerity—When It Works and When It Doesn’t” reviewed by Idrees Kahloon
Economists revisit an unsettled economic policy.
Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”
…and a possible clue in the stacks
Dumbarton Oaks exhibit “Juggling the Middle Ages” is previewed
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
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