Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
The Artist Edward Gorey—and Pets—at Harvard
Winter exhibits at Houghton Library
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
Open Book: Bare-Knuckle Politics
Contentious American democracy—in a new case-method history book
Recent books with Harvard Connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Michael Klarman reinterprets the American founding
The anti-democratic origins of the Constitution