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.
Higher Education Reform and the SAT
Nicholas Lemann on revising standardized testing to address real educational needs
In 'Homeland,' n+1 writer Richard Beck excavates the War on Terror
How the War on Terror reshaped American life
The Friendship of Helen Vendler and Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney writes to Helen Vendler.
Fall Book Recommendations from Harvard Authors
Democratic organizing, “architectural grafting,” the Constitution, offshore wealth, and other new books
Harvard Author Behind Afrofuturist Trilogy “Blood and Bone”
The reality-based fantasies of novelist Tomi Adeyemi
How Was Brooklyn Bridge Park Planned?
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Harvard Books on Monet, Free Time, Food, and More
Painting with Monet, birding with Thoreau, and other recent books
Harvard Professor on Printmaking
An art historian analyzes an overlooked medium.
by Murray Whyte
American Citizenship Through Photography
How photographs promote social justice
A New Norton Anthology of World Literature Reimagines the Global Literary Tradition
A new Norton Anthology, edited by Harvard’s Martin Puchner, reimagines the global literary tradition.