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.
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
An excerpt from "Jacob’s Cane"
Socialism as family inconvenience
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Review of "Half the Sky," on the oppression of women
A review of Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
by Rohini Pande
A New History of the Harvard Extension School
A new history by its dean, Michael Shinagel, documents the school's emphasis on accessibility and continuing education.
A history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
A new book relates the history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
Harvard University Press closes its display room
The Harvard University Press display room closes its doors.
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.