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.
The 2011 Phi Beta Kappa ceremony, featuring Henri Cole and Joyce Carol Oates
Orator Joyce Carol Oates and poet Henri Cole at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
Joyce Carol Oates to speak, Henri Cole to read at 2011 Phi Beta Kappa ceremony
The author will speak, and the poet will read, on May 24.
More on Adam Goodheart's new book "1861: The Civil War Awakening"
Adam Goodheart's new book explores the Civil War.
Elise Paschen's career in poetry.
The Chicago poet has spread the good wordings via book, CD—and subway.
HMS alumnus Siddhartha Mukherjee wins Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction
Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. '00, is honored for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
Profile of Chicano writer Manuel Muñoz
Chicano writer Manuel Muñoz ’94 mines the “humanizing effect of literature.”
Sugata Bose reviews Joseph Lelyveld’s Gandhi biography "Great Soul"
Sugata Bose reviews Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, by Joseph Lelyveld.
by Sugata Bose
An excerpt from Thomas D. Seeley's new book, <i>Honeybee Democracy</i>
An excerpt from Thomas D. Seeley's new book, Honeybee Democracy
Geraldine Brooks explores seventeenth-century Harvard in <i>Caleb's Crossing.
Geraldine Brooks's new novel stars Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, Harvard's first Native American graduate, A.B. 1665.
by Amelia Atlas
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections