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
For the Homies
In José Olivarez’s poetry, the political is personal.
by Josie Abugov
The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes
Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
by Craig Lambert
Pinned in Memory
Susan Rubin Suleiman’s memoir of a life in Nazi Hungary—and after
Off the Shelf
In love with Harvard Square, the invention of ICUs, Seamus Heaney
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
by Bailey Trela
The Modern World Reconceived
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”
by J. Bradford Delong
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
by Marilynn Richtarik
It's Still Hard for Women in Science
New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now
by Nancy Walecki
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld