Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Open Book: A New Nuclear Age
Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy’s latest book looks at the rising danger of a new arms race.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
D.J. and experimental composer Jace Clayton discusses his new book, Uproot.
In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum's Moby-Dick marathon
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Brief life of Alan Seeger, poet and soldier in World War I
Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916
Open Book: Bruegel’s Crowd Paintings
Crowd painting that attracts crowds.
Profile of poet Jean Valentine
Poet Jean Valentine on literary companionship
Recent books with Harvard Connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Fusion fantasy: a profile of translator and fiction writer Ken Liu
Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.
Harvardians awarded National Humanities Medals and National Book nominations
Last week, three Harvard affiliates were awarded the National Humanities Medal and eight were long-listed for the National Book Awards.
“Illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections” displayed in three-site exhibit
A new exhibit highlights how medieval monasticism’s “cult of the book” transmitted beauty and knowledge to the modern world.