Books & Literary Life
“From Neither Here Nor There”
Sociologist Roberto Gonzales on the predicament of undocumented young people
by Lydialyle Gibson
Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions
How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
by Nell Porter Brown
A Second Pulitzer for Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys wins the 2020 prize for fiction.
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
by Donovan Moore
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