Books
Studying 'American Pastoral' to Understand 'The Road'
Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” is one of the few recent novels that has achieved commercial as well as critical success.
'Point Omega' Explores Complexity and Consciousness
One could easily consume Don DeLillo’s “Point Omega” in a single sitting.
'Solar' Powered by Accidents
Michael Beard’s life is a series of contradictions. He is a Nobel Laureate, but also a scientific fraud. He is the chief of a climate research center, but doesn’t believe in global warming.
Noni Carter
Noni Carter '13 speaks about her recently published book Good Fortune at an event sponsored by the Harvard College Women's Center and the Association of Black Harvard Women. Good Fortune, which Noni began when she was 12, is a slave narrative that follows Ayanna Bahati's journey from captivity to freedom.
Noni Carter
Noni Carter '13 speaks about her recently published book Good Fortune at an event sponsored by the Harvard College Women's Center and the Association of Black Harvard Women. Good Fortune, which Noni began when she was 12, is a slave narrative that follows Ayanna Bahati's journey from captivity to freedom.
Pinker speaks about Darwin and God
Steven Pinker and his wife Rebecca Newberger Goldstein discuss Darwin, the role fiction should play in intelligent life, arguments on the existence of God, as well as other topics of literature, science, and philosophy.
Mason Reinvents Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ in ‘The Lost Books’
“The Lost Books of the Odyssey,” Zachary Mason’s mesmerizing new novel, takes Odysseus’s homeward bound journey and riddles it with uncertainty.
Aciman Falters in 'Nights'
André Aciman’s entire second novel reads like an exercise in bringing a feverish Proustian narrative to twenty-first century Manhattan.
Goodman's Detailed 'Devil'
British historian Jordan Goodman offers a dispassionate account of Casement’s struggle to expose and put an end to the atrocities wrought by Arana’s company in the Putumayo River Basin of northern Peru.
"Good Fortune"
Noni Carter '13 speaks to elementary school students from the Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School about achieving their dreams. Carter's historical fiction novel "Good Fortune" was just published last month.
Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before the Shooting
The Harvard Book Store hosted a conversation yesterday about Ralph Ellison’s posthumously-published second novel “Three Days Before the Shooting...” which Ellison had spent nearly four decades writing.
Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before the Shooting
The Harvard Book Store hosted a conversation with John Callahan and Adam Bradley about Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting. At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Three Days Before the Shooting gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published.
Editors Discuss Ralph Ellison's Novel Fragment
The editors of Ralph Ellison’s posthumously published second novel, "Three Days Before the Shooting..." told an audience at the Harvard Bookstore last night that the celebrated author’s unfinished work is not a masterpiece.
Ferris' Account Of an 'Unnamed' Mental Affliction
Ferris painstakingly captures the psychology of each member of the Farnsworth family, as they cycle through anger, indignation, grief, resignation, and acceptance—sometimes alone and sometimes together.
Leaving The Great Books Unfinished
I’ve accumulated a pretty impressive list of books that I’ve stopped reading. In fact, my growing catalog rivals many lists of the greatest novels ever written.
Moya Struggles to Charm in 'Snakes'
Superficially a fantastical page-turner, the novel is at its core an uncompromising interrogation of authority, a gruesome satire whose pivot turns on exposing the consequences that result from a manipulated identity.
Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before the Shooting
The Harvard Book Store hosted a conversation with John Callahan and Adam Bradley about Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting. At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Three Days Before the Shooting gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published.
A Comedy of Political Errors
Such insider information would be most valuable if not for the minor disadvantage of it being entirely fabricated. The book is in fact a work of fiction, as is the character of Martin Eisenstadt himself.
Arguing For Existence
The Harvard Book Store and Harvard Hillel welcomed award-winning novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein yesterday to read from her new novel "36 Arguments for the Existence of God."
Thomas Ricks speaks about the US military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas Ricks discusses the future of United States military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan at the Harvard Bookstore yesterday.
A Call to Arts
Although the Task Force Report has had minimal concrete impact thus far, the administration’s open support for the arts has caused a wave of optimism among the student body.
'Happiness' Without Substance
Middle-aged women are supposed to love Alice Munro almost as much as they love yogurt.
Meditations Of a Midwesterner
In her newest novel, “A Gate at the Stairs,” Moore enters completely into the mind, heart and skin of a dynamic and perceptive college student, and in doing so, has created an incisive portrait of life in America immediately after September 11th.