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

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Recent books with Harvard connections

The Mystery of Mathematics

Teaching and learning math as a human endeavor

by Jacob Barandes

Eat, Drink, Read

The Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout

by Nell Porter Brown

“They Need Money”

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

Assaulting the Ramparts

In her new book, Rosabeth Moss Kanter thinks “outside the building.”

Medicine for an Ailing Democracy

How to reform voting and elections in the United States to create a representative democracy

by Jonathan Shaw

Hoffa and Harvard Law

A new look at “one of the greatest unsolved crimes in American history”

“The Luckiest Books”

A visit to the Harvard Depository

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Recent books with Harvard connections

Forgive, but Don’t Forget

…and don’t always forgive

by Lincoln Caplan