Books & Literary Life
Developing Dads
Exploring the evolutionary biology of human fathers as caretakers
by Richard G. Bribiescas
What’s Become of “Character”?
Marjorie Garber explores the word’s complexity and history.
Electoral Eccentricity
Problematic features of the Electoral College
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Arts as Essential Goods
A prescient novelist is hopeful that “after great change, amazing things can happen.”
by Nell Porter Brown
“From Neither Here Nor There”
Sociologist Roberto Gonzales on the predicament of undocumented young people
by Lydialyle Gibson
Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions
How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
by Nell Porter Brown
A Second Pulitzer for Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys wins the 2020 prize for fiction.
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
by Donovan Moore
Taking the Plunge
The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.