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

Where We Went Wrong

A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century

Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists

An historian, a poet, and a translator

by Lydialyle Gibson

America’s Riven Politics

 A Harvard Magazine Q & A with Evan Osnos ’98, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury

A Long Night's Journey in Palestine

William Tamplin, Ph.D. ’20,  on the lyricism and secrecy of an Arabic literary pioneer 

by Lydialyle Gibson

“A Moral Obligation”

Charles Berlin and 60 years of collecting for Harvard Library

by Lydialyle Gibson

“Fallen to the Depths”

Nicholas Dawidoff’s wrenching account of urban inequity

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Is the Supreme Court’s Role Undemocratic?

Justice Felix Frankfurter, to great controversy, said yes.

by Lincoln Caplan

The Blue Garden

Newport's restored landscape 

by Craig Lambert

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections