Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Tara Menon’s Debut Novel Combines Friendship, Grief, and Climate Disaster
The popular Harvard English professor published Under Water this spring.
Bill Gates on AI and Innovation
At Harvard, the Microsoft co-founder discusses his biography—and artificial intelligence.
Poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy
Poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy
Jimmy Carter and James Agee ’32
Why this “sovereign prince of the English language” touched the president’s heart
History and Love in Haiti
Alumna Nadine Pinede’s young-adult novel—in verse
The Ideology of Settler Colonialism and Israel-Palestine
A critical analysis of “settler colonialism”
Recent Books with Harvard Connections January 2024
Recent books about Iraq, academic writing, John Singer Sargent, “eldercide,” and more
Redefining Race as Ethnicity
The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors
Henry Hobson Richardson: Architect of Harvard's Iconic Austin and Sever Halls
Invaluable architectural archive published at last
Recent Books with Harvard Connections: November-December 2024
Books about the art and science of eating, on being Zen, helping youngsters grow up, and more
Edwin Frank Explores the 20th-Century Novel in 'Stranger Than Fiction'
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.