Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
These Harvard Mountaineers Braved Denali’s Wall of Ice
John Graham’s Denali Diary documents a dangerous and historic climb.
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
Kamensky, Caplan, MacGregor, and Sherman honored by Harvard Magazine
Celebrating distinguished authors and artists
Deidre Lynch on Jane Austen and loving literature
Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature
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
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Art, history, and food in Providence, R.I.
Car-free fun in downtown Providence