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.
Reviews of "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande
The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.
The Harvard founders of literary magazine n+1
Three Harvard Advocate alumni helped found a highbrow literary periodical.
Excerpt from Charles Gross’s A Hole in the Head
An excerpt from A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience, by Charles Gross ’57
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
David Warsh reviews "This Time Is Different" by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff
David Warsh reviews This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff.
by David Warsh
Books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Monuments Men: Rescuing art from the Nazis
Harvard’s Monuments Men at war
Rare-book dealers Jon and Margaret Richardson specialize in the Bloomsbury Group
Rare-book dealers Jon and Margaret Richardson are fans of the Bloomsbury Group.
Sportscaster J.B. Brown writes about his "Role of a Lifetime"
Sportscaster J.B. Brown writes about his "Role of a Lifetime"
Former financier Norb Vonnegut’s investment-world thriller
Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.