Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
The Artist Edward Gorey—and Pets—at Harvard
Winter exhibits at Houghton Library
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
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
Houghton Library Celebrates the Quatercentenary of Shakespeare's Death
Celebrating four centuries of Shakespeare at Harvard
by Olivia Munk
Salem's House of the Seven Gables survives
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem muse was preserved by philanthropist Caroline Emmerton.
“Remembering Monomoy” honors a special part of Cape Cod
Fred Crafts ’50 combines memoir and appreciation of Cape Cod’s natural wonders in Remembering Monomoy.
by Jean Martin