Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
From Appalachia to Harvard, a Woman’s Struggle to Find Herself
In her memoir All That's Unseen, Emilee Hackney explores religion, friendship, and home.
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.
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.
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.”
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 stores Tibetan digital archive
Ten million pages of Tibetan literature will be stored in the library’s Digital Repository Services.