Books & Literary Life


Developing Dads

Exploring the evolutionary biology of human fathers as caretakers

by Richard G. Bribiescas

Karl May

Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912

by Eugene Stelzig

Deep Roots

Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.

by Olivia Schwob

Personal History

An addiction to reading

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

“Wild Dreams”

Malaysian-born Yangsze Choo writes novels infused with the tropical mysteries of her childhood.

by Stuart Miller

“Cut Missal Up…”

Consequences of book-breaking

by Diane E. Booton

"The Love of a Ghost for a Ghost"

A bombshell letter from modernist poet T.S. Eliot, 50 years after his death

by Lydialyle Gibson

“They Need Money”

The world’s richest nation tolerates “basically the highest child poverty rates in the developed world.”