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.
Justin Cronin ’84’s “The City of Mirrors”
Thanks to Harvard, according to a new fantasy epic by Justin Cronin ’84
Harvard hockey player Bill Keenan writes a memoir
The post-Harvard hockey tales of Bill Keenan
by Bailey Trela
Blair Kamin organizes a colorful new guide to the "Gates of Harvard Yard"
A nitty-gritty guide by a Nieman Fellow and his team.
A Harvard undergraduate assesses his unfinished works
Pre-Commencement, the Undergraduate assesses his unfinished works.
by Bailey Trela
Brief life of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch
Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839
Excerpt from Amy Tuteur's "Push Back: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting"
Strong words from a combatant in the childbirth wars
Illustrator Andrea Tsurumi, on making art to "fight the shorthand"
In Andrea Tsurumi's comics and illustrated work, life is observed and shown as absurd.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
“Aeneid Book VI,” by Seamus Heaney, reviewed by Richard F. Thomas
A new translation from the Aeneid
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words