Books & Literary Life


Spellbound on Stage

Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Conservative

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s journey through American decadence and upheaval

by Lydialyle Gibson

Lorenzo Tañada

Brief life of a Philippine patriot: 1898-1992

by Christopher Capozzola

Finding Other Streets

Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew

by Dan Kelly

“To Break Our Own Rules”

Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers

by Lydialyle Gibson

In a Farmer’s Long Beard

Miriam Udel’s passion for children and Yiddish children’s literature

Family History

A German American scholar is unsettled by an ancestor’s secret.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Yearning for an Upswing

In search of optimism, a sweeping interpretation of American social history

by Idrees Kahloon

Artful Gifts

Holiday gifts that support the arts

by Nell Porter Brown