Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Tara Menon’s Debut Novel Combines Friendship, Grief, and Climate Disaster
The popular Harvard English professor published Under Water this spring.
Innovation in humanities courses aims to reach larger numbers of students
New gateways into the humanities for students “still fully molten as human beings”
At Harvard, Dava Sobel discusses what convinced Copernicus to publish his work
At Harvard, Dava Sobel discusses the conversation that convinced Copernicus to publish his lifework.
A tribute to Justin Kaplan
In tribute to an old friend
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. letters liberalism
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s "fighting faith" in liberalism, revealed in his letters
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books on evolution, island Ireland, Jonathan Swift, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections
Claudia Bedrick of Enchanted Lion Books for children
Claudia Bedrick ’85 of Enchanted Lion Books offers an international array of stories to young children.
Virgil Encyclopedia in English
Two Harvard classics professors create the first Virgil Encyclopedia in English.
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