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.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Adam Kirsch reviews Lawrence Buell on the Great American Novel
A literary critic on the Great American Novel
by Adam Kirsch
The Atlantic’s Scott Stossel on anxiety
Scott Stossel ’91 probes anxiety in a personal, revealing, and funny book about a serious subject.
Alterrnative Medicine, poetry book by physician Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo, M.D., straddles medicine and metonymy.
by Stephen Burt
Recent books on reading, Bernard Berenson, neutrino hunters, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections
Brief life of novelist Ann Petry, by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Brief life of a celebrity-averse novelist: 1908-1997
Anita Elberse on the big business of blockbusters
In entertainment, big bets on likely winners rule.
Robert Frost revealed in his letters
Robert Frost’s “doubleness,” revealed in his letters—and poems.
by Adam Kirsch
Joanna Hershon forays in historical fiction
Joanna Hershon marshaled period details from the 1960s
"The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets" reveals hidden science references
Simon Singh’s new book reveals multiple math references in the show and reveals their Harvard sources.