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.

by Andrés Muedano

Susan Cain foments the "Quiet Revolution."

Susan Cain foments the “Quiet Revolution.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

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

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

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

by Lincoln Caplan

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Art of Protest

“It doesn’t even make sense to me that art and protest would be separate.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

“Presenting Jane," and a youthful summer for the New York School

A rediscovered short film, with new commentary by Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery ’49, Litt.D. ’01, gives a glimpse of the New York School's early days.

by Matthew Browne