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.
Anthologizing Yourself
Mary Jo Salter keeps her own (and others') poetry alive...
by Paul Gleason
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words...
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections...
Shakespeare, Lost and Found
How could it be that a Shakespeare play currently being performed at the American Repertory Theatre was actually written not by The Bard, but by two men of Harvard?
Freeing Speech
Anthony Lewis’s Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment offers a lucid and engaging overview of American...
Chapter & Verse
Michael Comenetz asks if the phrase “Galloping Gordon,” sometimes applied to British prime minister Gordon Brown, originated with...
Identity Seeker
Sergio Troncoso ’83 showed up in Cambridge in 1979 with a suitcase full of T-shirts brought from his hometown on the Texas-Mexico border...
by Liz Goodwin
Sleuths in Love
Screenwriter turned novelist Eric Lerner ’71 finds his voice...
A Scatter of Acorns
Excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 memoir The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball...
Off the Shelf
Yeltsin: A Life, by Timothy J. Colton, Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies (Basic Books, $35). A monumental biography of the...