Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Open Book: A New Nuclear Age
Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy’s latest book looks at the rising danger of a new arms race.
Review of Daniel Ziblatt, “Conservative Political Parties”
Scholarly lessons from Europe prove pertinent today.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Logic Is a Little Magazine That Asks Big Questions about the Tech Industry
Four alums foster Logic, a new magazine focusing on a complex tech world on fire.
by Oset Babür
Susan Cain foments the "Quiet Revolution."
Susan Cain foments the “Quiet Revolution.”
Harvard Houghton Library 75th anniversary exhibition
A humanistic “masterclass” for Houghton Library's seventy-fifth anniversary
A new biography of Louis Kahn
Probing the primal drives of a landmark architect
Reality fiction: the delightful fullness of Elif Batuman's “The Idiot”
Elif Batuman’s novel The Idiot reflects on her Harvard freshman year.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Wordsworth seen anew and other recent books
Wordsworth seen anew, and other recent books
Adam Kirsch on Megan Marshall’s Elizabeth Bishop biography
Adam Kirsch reviews Megan Marshall’s biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
by Adam Kirsch