Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
America’s Past, Opera's Future: 11 New Books from Harvard Authors
These newly released novels, histories, and memoirs grapple with identity in all its forms.
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.
Radcliffe Institute panel discusses the place of women writers
Radcliffe Institute panel discusses the place of women writers.
Jamaica Kincaid and Margaret Atwood bookend Harvard's first literary festival
Jamaica Kincaid and Margaret Atwood bookend a three-day exploration of literary life.
Donald Revell and Andrea Barrett to speak at Harvard's PBK Literary Exercises
Donald Revell and Andrea Barrett to speak at PBK Literary Exercises
Havard alumna Megan Marshall ’77 wins Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Damrosch, O’Brien, and Adams named finalists.