Books & Literary Life


Spellbound on Stage

Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Essential Educator for His Time

A life of Princeton’s Bill Bowen

by Howard Gardner

The Happy Warrior Redux

Hubert Humphrey’s liberalism reconsidered

A Dogged Observer

Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.

by Max J. Krupnick

Off the Shelf

Revolutionizing French fashion, early Chinese writing, and more

Diagnosis by Fiction

The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.

by Craig Lambert

Fictions about the Forces Driving Migration

Glenda Carpio on the new migration narrative

by Nina Pasquini

Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70

Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel

by Lydialyle Gibson

No Sleepy Coastal Town

Visiting Portsmouth in winter

by Nell Porter Brown

Democracy Endangered

American democracy endangered by minority rule

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections