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.
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.
Photo history of Harvard Square
A new book of photographs tells Harvard Square’s history since the 1950s. Test your own Square knowledge for a chance to win a copy of the book.
1968 Harvard-Yale game documentary on DVD
A new DVD and book capture the legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale game.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Frederick Seidel’s new poetry collection reviewed
Adam Kirsch reviews Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel ’57
by Adam Kirsch
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words