Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
From Appalachia to Harvard, a Woman’s Struggle to Find Herself
In her memoir All That's Unseen, Emilee Hackney explores religion, friendship, and home.
Blindspot: A Novel
History professor Jill Lepore is the coauthor, with Jane Kamensky, of the historical novel Blindspot, set in colonial Boston.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Poetic Patriarch
Craig Lambert profiles the poet Richard Wilbur.
Stinging the Dinosaurs
An excerpt from The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson
Carpenter Center's Craftsman
A new book, Le Corbusier Le Grand, pulls together the career of Le Corbusier, with material on Harvard’s Carpenter Center.
Art as Chattel
James Cuno reviews Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures, by Cynthia Saltzman
Faust Book a Contender for National Book Award
This Republic of Suffering is among the finalists in the nonfiction category...
The Mailer-Buckley Connection
The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 letters archived by Michael Lennon, according to The New Yorker...
Tall Tales
Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow— is publishing a second book—The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, which promises "a fascinating and informative look into the world of tall people"...
"Anti-Dominant" Journal
A small home for good writing
by Paul Gleason