Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Making Money Funny
Matt Levine’s spunky Bloomberg column
by Max J. Krupnick
Off the Shelf
The wealth gap, shamanism, the life of David Nathan, and more
Reconstructing the Berlin Wall
David Leo Rice explores the strange, unseen forces shaping our world.
by Nina Pasquini
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
by Nina Pasquini
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
by Olivia Farrar
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Off the Shelf
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
A New Voice
Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Chinese in America
Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction
Ben Franklin’s Project
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
by Joyce E. Chaplin