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.
"A Liar's Biography"
An art forger's success has less to do with his prowess as a visual artist than with his use and misuse of history.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
A Tale of Two Detectives
Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre.
by Paul Gleason
Seriously Funny
Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...
Self-Definition
Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths.
"Anti-Dominant" Journal
A small home for good writing
by Paul Gleason
Felonious Mayhem
Enron and other capitalist calamities
An Intimate Look at Zuckerberg and Other High-Tech Figures
Hafner writes that Lacy's "explanation of how venture capital works is instructive and clear, perhaps one of the best yet written for a general readership."
A Familiar Tale, Told With Style
Those in search of summer beach reading might pick up The Romantics, a new novel by Galt Niederhoffer ’97...