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.
Talking with Maureen McLane, author of "This Blue"
The poet and critic talks about her teaching, her writing, and her newest book, This Blue, a finalist for the National Book Award.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent Books with Harvard connections
Harvardians make long list for National Book Awards
Eight University affiliates are recognized by the National Book Foundation.
"Harvard Volunteers in World War I: One Hundred Years After" appears in tribute
Harvard’s World War I participants are honored in an updated volume edited by Douglass M. Carver ’59.
A World War I Harvard aviator, plus a Game-worthy car buff and his wheels
A World War I Harvard aviator, plus a Game-worthy car buff and his wheels
An excerpt from "To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party"
In To Make Men Free, Heather Cox Richardson seeks to explain the back-and-forth history of Republican Party goals.
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Review of Thomas Forrest Kelly’s “Capturing Music,” by Anna Zayaruznaya
The recording of songs and sounds past—a history of musical notation in the West
Events at Harvard and throughout Greater Boston in November and December
Events on and off campus during November and December
James Laughlin at Harvard, by Ian S. MacNiven, from LITERCHOOR IS MY BEAT
James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing