Books & Literary Life

Brooklyn Bridge Park: the beach at Main Street Park, in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge

Montage | July-August 2024

A Democratic Landscape

Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park

Montage | May-June 2021

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Hands typing on a computer keyboard.

Harvard Squared | March-April 2021

Write It!

This Boston conference offers a virtual writing retreat.

by Nell Porter Brown

A collage of emblematic figures in American history set against the Stars and Stripes

Right Now | March-April 2021

Culture in the Cold War

In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Solomon Gate in an open position.

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2021

A Gate of Whimsy

At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard

by Jacob Sweet

Head and torso of a man painted by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Montage | March-April 2021

Attention to Detail

Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Historic photograph of heap of fabric scraps

Montage | March-April 2021

“Shoddy”: The Noun

“From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags”—a surprising account of scrap

An illustration showing a human head in profile, suggesting the elements of distinctive Western psychology

Montage | March-April 2021

Rather Psychologically Peculiar

Reinterpreting the distinctive psychology of the human West

Photograph of author Justin Deabler

Montage | March-April 2021

A Lone Star Saga

Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Historic images of Francis Drake and Elizabeth I, who feature in a new book by Laurence Bergreen

Montage | March-April 2021

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Montage | March-April 2021

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words