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
Taking the Plunge
The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Fiction of Limbo
Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.
by Bailey Trela
The “Messy Experiment”
From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute
by Susan Ware
Chapter & Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
The Hollowing Out
Americans diminished by “social poverty”
by Allison Pugh
The Early Bird
A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community
by Nell Porter Brown
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.
Lizabeth Cohen Awarded Bancroft Prize
The urban historian is honored—for the second time.
by John S. Rosenberg
Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse
Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
by Bennett McIntosh