Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
America’s Past, Opera's Future: 11 New Books from Harvard Authors
These newly released novels, histories, and memoirs grapple with identity in all its forms.
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.
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...
Two Musical Neighborhoods
Harvard professor Lewis Lockwood and the Julliard String Quartet have collaborated on Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation...
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?