Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
From Appalachia to Harvard, a Woman’s Struggle to Find Herself
In her memoir All That's Unseen, Emilee Hackney explores religion, friendship, and home.
Ilona Bell cultivates a literary garden in the Berkshires
A Berkshire yard that recalls poetry, fiction, and drama
How to reinvigorate the humanities at Harvard is the subject of new reports
How to reinvigorate the humanities at Harvard is the subject of new faculty reports
August Kleinzahler poet, Linda Greenhouse orator, at 2013 Harvard Phi Beta Kappa
August Kleinzahler and Linda Greenhouse to speak at Commencement-week PBK Literary Exercises
Harvard alumnus Tom Reiss ’86 wins Pulitzer for Biography
Bailyn, Kayyem, Wen named finalists.
Martin Puchner, author and professor of drama and of English
The English professor has already written three books and edited the 6,000-page third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature.
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Christoph Irmscher biography of Louis Agassiz reviewed by James Hanken
The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz
by James Hanken
Recent books by E.O. Wilson, Ezekiel Emanuel, Elliott Abrams, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections
History of napalm origins at Harvard
A new book traces napalm's invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah
Soman Chainani's new fantasy-adventure novel is a fairy tale for today’s world
A fairy tale for today’s world