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.
History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative
Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.
Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.
Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.
Harvard honors eight including Oprah Winfrey with W.E.B Du Bois Medal
The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.
by Laura Levis
Master class by Stephanie Sandler on an Osip Mandelstam poem
Professor Stephanie Sandler teaches Osip Mandelstam's "Wasps," and the power of listening.
Tara Altebrando is the coauthor of "Roomies"
Tara Altebrando ’92 is the coauthor of a timely book.
by Nu Xiong
Review of Andrea Louise Campbell’s “Trapped in America’s Safety Net”
From personal catastrophe to enforced poverty
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard Library helps preserve Tibet’s literary heritage
Harvard Library helps preserve Tibet’s literary heritage.
Harvard’s Loeb Classical Library goes digital
A digital “rebirth” for the series of Greek and Roman classics