Books & Literary Life
A New Chapter for Harvard Arts
The Office for the Arts turns 50, and its longtime director steps down.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Off the Shelf
Revolutionizing French fashion, early Chinese writing, and more
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.
by Craig Lambert
Fictions about the Forces Driving Migration
Glenda Carpio on the new migration narrative
by Nina Pasquini
Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70
Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel
by Lydialyle Gibson
No Sleepy Coastal Town
Visiting Portsmouth in winter
by Nell Porter Brown
Democracy Endangered
American democracy endangered by minority rule
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Living the Science Fiction Fantasy
Novelist Catherine Asaro’s space operas
by Lydialyle Gibson
Educational Ascent
Ruth Simmons on her ascent from sharecropper’s daughter to scholar
Tom Hyry
What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism
by Max J. Krupnick