Books & Literary Life

Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.

These Harvard Mountaineers Braved Denali’s Wall of Ice

John Graham’s Denali Diary documents a dangerous and historic climb.

by Lydialyle Gibson

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.

by Francesca Annic...

Harvard’s Loeb Classical Library goes digital

A digital “rebirth” for the series of Greek and Roman classics

by Francesca Annic...

John Casey's two new books show an outdoorsman and novelist at work

Novelist and outdoorsman John Casey’s two new books look at teaching writing and his athletic exploits.

by Craig Lambert

An excerpt from "Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution"

In Uncertain Justice, Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz examine the current Supreme Court.

Brief life of America’s epic historian Francis Parkman, by Castle Freeman

Brief life of America’s epic historian: 1823-1893

Shakespeare e-books link text with new performances

New e-books bring Shakespeare to life.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Artist Matt Freedman’s “cancer treatment journal” about adenoid cystic carcinoma

Artist Matt Freedman ’78 confronts adenoid cystic carcinoma.

Evan Osnos on contemporary China, Age of Ambition, reviewed by Edward Steinfeld

The Chinese people’s individual acts of self-transformation

Jean's McGarry's dark fiction about a regional subculture of Rhode Island

Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”

by Craig Lambert