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.
Can Science Justify Itself?
Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now defends science from modern-day foes.
by Ada Palmer
Alain Locke as activist aesthete
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch
Excerpt from "The Annotated African American Folktales"
The power and legacy of African-American folktales
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“Gorey’s World” at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
Excerpt from “Off the Charts,” by Ann Hulbert
Parents and superkids, then and now
by Ann Hulbert
Excerpt from "Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing," by Victoria Sweet, M.D.
A doctor’s take on the destruction of medicine
Dara Horn, author of "Eternal Life," profiled
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.