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.
Dara Horn, author of "Eternal Life," profiled
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.
James Madison biography by Noah Feldman reviewed by Lincoln Caplan
Lincoln Caplan reviews Noah Feldman’s The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf: Recent Books with Harvard Connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Frank Bidart wins the 2017 National Book Award for poetry
Five other Harvardians were also honored by the National Book Foundation.
E.E. Cummings and Samuel Beck—a Harvard undergraduate recollection
What one undergraduate learned
Excerpt from “The Wine Lover’s Daughter” by Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman ’74 recalls her father, Clifton, in an excerpt from The Wine Lover’s Daughter
Found in Translation
Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
by Oset Babür
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard professor Stephanie Burt on becoming co-poetry editor at “The Nation”
Stephanie Burt ’94 is the kind of poetry critic who provokes anger in other poetry critics.