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.
The Essential Educator for His Time
A life of Princeton’s Bill Bowen
The Happy Warrior Redux
Hubert Humphrey’s liberalism reconsidered
A Dogged Observer
Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.
Off the Shelf
Revolutionizing French fashion, early Chinese writing, and more
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet” probes medicine—and life.
The Immigrant Experience
Glenda Carpio on the new migration narrative
Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70
Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel
No Sleepy Coastal Town
Visiting Portsmouth in winter
Democracy Endangered
American democracy endangered by minority rule
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections