Books & Literary Life
Developing Dads
Exploring the evolutionary biology of human fathers as caretakers
by Richard G. Bribiescas
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Fiction of Limbo
Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.
by Bailey Trela
The “Messy Experiment”
From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute
by Susan Ware
Chapter & Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
The Hollowing Out
Americans diminished by “social poverty”
by Allison Pugh
The Early Bird
A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community
by Nell Porter Brown
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.
Lizabeth Cohen Awarded Bancroft Prize
The urban historian is honored—for the second time.
by John S. Rosenberg
Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse
Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
by Bennett McIntosh
A Mind of One’s Own
Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
by Nell Porter Brown