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.

by Nina Pasquini , Nell Porter-Brown

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Harvard Undergraduate columnist on exclusive organizations

The Undergraduate wrestles with The Advocate’s exclusive comp process. 

by Lily Scherlis

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.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

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.

by Madeleine Schwartz

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