Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
America’s Past, Opera's Future: 11 New Books from Harvard Authors
These newly released novels, histories, and memoirs grapple with identity in all its forms.
Civil War American Writer and Abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier
Homes of the poet and abolitionist, whose verses were said to have inspired Abraham Lincoln.
Making the Public Record Public
Harvard legal database released
Spellbound on Stage
Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy
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