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

Photograph of downtown Yamhill, Oregon, with general store

Montage | May-June 2020

The Hollowing Out

Americans diminished by “social poverty”

by Allison Pugh

Birder David Barrett pictured at Central Park

Alumni | May-June 2020

The Early Bird

A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community

by Nell Porter Brown

At Home with Harvard |

At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life

Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.

photograph of Lizabeth Cohen

University News |

Lizabeth Cohen Awarded Bancroft Prize

The urban historian is honored—for the second time.

by John S. Rosenberg

Photograph by Ken Liu

Students & Alumni |

Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse

Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity

by Bennett McIntosh

Photograph of Emily Dickinson’s family home, The Homestead, an elegant wooden building

Harvard Squared | March-April 2020

A Mind of One’s Own

Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson

by Nell Porter Brown

German author Karl May dressed as his Old West hero, Old Shatterhand

Features | March-April 2020

Karl May

Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912

by Eugene Stelzig

Photograph of the two actors on stage

Montage | March-April 2020

Deep Roots

Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.

by Olivia Schwob

Photo of a young boy reading a book

Montage | March-April 2020

Personal History

An addiction to reading

A view of the Frank House study in 1940, with many books and examples of modern art from the 1930s

Montage | March-April 2020

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections