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.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
T.S. Eliot as a Harvard student
A rediscovery of the emerging poet
by Adam Kirsch
Harvard novelist Lauren Willig plans the next plot twist in her career
From lawyering to a literary life.
Craig Lambert on shadow work
A Harvard Magazine alumnus on the new world of “middle-class serfdom”
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard professor critiques book on youth, maturity
A philosopher’s take on individuals and maturity, in a world of institutions
J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and their circle, by Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski
The literary flowering of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, et al.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Poet and translator David Ferry, profiled by Spencer Lenfield
Poet and translator David Ferry
Talking with Tracy K. Smith, author of "Ordinary Light"
The poet discusses her newest book, the memoir Ordinary Light.