Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Open Book: A New Nuclear Age
Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy’s latest book looks at the rising danger of a new arms race.
A Dogged Observer
Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.
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
Living the Science Fiction Fantasy
Novelist Catherine Asaro’s space operas
Educational Ascent
Ruth Simmons on her ascent from sharecropper’s daughter to scholar
Tom Hyry
What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism