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