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.
Feeding an Addiction
Enlisting the food industry in the fight against obesity
The Tall Book, by Arianne Cohen, describes the lives of tall people.
Arianne Cohen ’03 celebrates “life from on high” in a new book that discusses tall people's perspectives and prospects.
The Bible and the Almanac
How Pete Seeger got his start: an excerpt from Alec Wilkinson's new biography, The Protest Singer
Music, Taken Personally
A music critic reviews composer John Adams’s memoir.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Vistas of Perfection
A profile of writer James Agee, at Harvard and beyond
by Adam Kirsch
Chasing Bogeys
A novel book on golf
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Laughing at Slavery
In Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, Glenda Carpio describes how slavery has provided a background and a source of raw material for African-American humor.
The Alcotts, Père and Fille
John Matteson, who left the law to pursue literature, won a Pulitzer Prize for Eden’s Outcasts, his double biography of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott.