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
“Class Cluelessness”
A review of Joan Williams’s powerful book on the resentments reshaping American politics
by Andrea Louise C...
Off the Shelf
Beach reading, the West, segregation, gardening with children, and more
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
A Literary Wake for the Obama Era
Harvard Review editor Major Jackson, RI ’07, linked 200 poets in this verse tribute to the president.
by Sophia Nguyen
A Certain Slant of Light
In his film A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies illuminates Emily Dickinson’s daily life and eternal poetry.
by Sophia Nguyen
Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes
Journalist, novelist, and social scientist honored
by Oset Babür
Exclusivity, from the Inside
The Undergraduate wrestles with The Advocate’s exclusive comp process.
by Lily Scherlis
Yellow Wolf
Brief life of a Native American witness to history: c. 1855-1935
by Daniel J. Sharfstein
Humanizing Finance
A Business School professor ties finance and humanities together.
Off the Shelf
A natural history of Martha’s Vineyard, and other books with Harvard connections