Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
These Harvard Mountaineers Braved Denali’s Wall of Ice
John Graham’s Denali Diary documents a dangerous and historic climb.
Amelia Lester named New Yorker managing editor
Amelia Lester ’05 is a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine.
The Last of His Kind: A new biography of mountaineer and photographer H. Bradfor
The life of mountaineer, pioneering aerial photographer, and Museum of Science leader H. Bradford Washburn, newly chronicled by fellow mountaineer David Roberts ’65.
David McCann wants sijo, an ancient form of Korean poetry, to catch on.
Professor David McCann wants an ancient form of Korean poetry to catch on the way haiku has.
Great books teach life lessons: Christopher Beha reads the Harvard Classics cove
A new book documents a Princetonian’s year-long immersion in the Harvard Classics, the venerable "Five-foot Shelf" of Great Books.
Letters & Letterman
Bill Scheft ‘79 writes comedy for David Letterman, as well as novels.
Cultures in Conflict
Paul M. Barrett reviews “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West,” by Christopher Caldwell ’83
Shuttered Behind Bars
In a new book, photographer Bruce Jackson presents old ID photo portraits from an Arkansas prison.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
"Days With the Family Realist"
A poem for the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
Slaying Dragons
A crime novelist explores the deepest cracks in the human heart.