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
Amartya Sen, a Memoir
The book covers the first thirty years of the Nobel-prize winning economist’s life.
by Sugata Bose
Re-remembering Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her unusually personal book on the holiday.
by Lydialyle Gibson
A Surfing Author’s Children’s Book
In the swim with Bonnie Tsui
by S.I. Rosenbaum
Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100
The first century of the Chinese Communist Party—and what impends
Open Book: The Case for Commitment
Pete Davis expands on his Commencement address.
Namwali Serpell
The professor of English is also a novelist and a critic.
by Jonathan Shaw
Off the Shelf: Recent Books with Harvard Connections
Tax follies, Thomas Sowell, Donald Hall, and more
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
The founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner profiled
by Juliet Isselbacher
al-Hariri
Brief life of a master storyteller
by Michael Cooperson
The Tensions That Roiled Texas
Annette Gordon-Reed on the real history of Texas, and Juneteenth