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.
Recent books by David Esterly, Gish Jen, Thomas Kelly, and others
Recent books with Harvard connections
Profile of Rachel Cox, author of the World War II history "Into Dust and Fire"
Rachel Cox ’74 pays written tribute to an uncle and his friends with Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army.
by Jean Martin
Tennessee Williams meets Mother Teresa, and Gore Vidal on Harvard
Tennessee Williams, Mother Teresa…and Gore Vidal
A Schlesinger Library exhibit celebrates Julia Child’s centennial
Julia is feted in her centenary year.
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books by Mahzarin Banaji, Adrienne Rich, and others
Recent books with Harvard connections
Bernard Bailyn's "The Barbarous Years" reviewed by Daniel K. Richter
The “mixed multitudes” of early Colonial America—and the Native Americans
Ben Loory writes short, quirky stories
Ben Loory's minimalist stories ambush the reader.
by David Updike
George Howe Colt's new book "Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History"
In Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History, George Howe Colt offers autobiography and biography both.
Author Toni Morrison gives 2012 Harvard Divinity School Ingersoll Lecture
The author discusses altruism and the literary imagination in the 2012 Ingersoll Lecture.