Wanderers from Sirius
Katrina Roberts’s poems suggest that life springs from stardust.
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Literary Life
Chapter & Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
12.16.11
“In the Bee-Loud Glade”
The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café in Boulder, Colorado, sells beverages, pastries, and poetry—nothing else.
10.19.11
Andy Borowitz Loosens Up the Library of America
A new anthology of humorous writing joins the shelf of illustrious literary classics.
9.8.11
Fakery and Shakespeare
A con man, his son, and a fiction on two levels
6.16.11
On “Inspiration” and an Ohio Swimming Hole
Orator Joyce Carol Oates and poet Henri Cole at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
5.24.11
Phi Beta Kappa to Feature Joyce Carol Oates, Henri Cole
The author will speak, and the poet will read, on May 24.
5.6.11
Poetic Paschen
The Chicago poet has spread the good wordings via book, CD—and subway.
4.19.11
Echoes of the Central Valley
Chicano writer Manuel Muñoz ’94 mines the “humanizing effect of literature.”
4.17.11
Frank Rich to Leave New York Times
The political and cultural columnist is headed to New York magazine.
3.1.11
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
2.23.11
Nabokov's Butterflies
Harvard biologist Naomi Pierce confirms the Russian author’s theory about the winged creatures’ migration and evolution.
2.8.11
What Books Are For
The Radcliffe Institute’s “Why Books?” conference touches on a timely theme.
11.3.10
Comedy, Harvard, and Hollywood
Three articles from Harvard Magazine’s archives explore the roles Harvard alumni have played in the entertainment industry and their influence on comedy.
10.19.10
Video: Modern-Day Romanticism
In her latest book of poems, April Bernard aims to capture the intensity of the Romantic Era. Watch as she discusses, and reads from, her work.