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.
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.
Alex Dumas, inspiration for "The Count of Monte Cristo," by Tom Reiss
Brief life of the soldier who inspired The Count of Monte Cristo: 1762-1806
by Tom Reiss
Evan Thomas's biography of President Eisenhower
In Evan Thomas's new biography, President Eisenhower emerges as a canny nuclear strategist.