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.
Excerpt from Alexandra Petri, "A Field Guide to Awkward Silences"
A Harvard humorist reveals her superpower.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books with Harvard connections
Olmsted's parks, Putin and Ukraine, climate shock, and more
"mathematics without apologies," by Michael Harris, reviewed by Avner Ash
Two practitioners consider the enterprise of pure mathematics.
by Avner Ash
Talking with Mia Alvar, author of “In the Country”
The fiction writer talks about her short-story collection, In the Country.
Harvard’s Houghton Library chronicles 150 years of “Alice in Wonderland”
Houghton Library exhibition chronicles 150 years of Alice in Wonderland.
by Zara Zhang
Promoting the arts and humanities at Harvard Medical School
This fall, Harvard Medical School will launch a new program to promote the arts and humanities.
by Zara Zhang
Harvard’s Robin Kelsey on photography
Robin Kelsey probes the place of photography within art.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“Evolving Ourselves,” by Enriquez and Gullans, reviewed by Katherine Xue
Tall tales from biology’s Wild West