Featured series 
Tag: Fiction
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Arts & Culture
How alphabetizing diary helped Sheila Heti organize thoughts
Literary boundary-pusher on her new memoir, conversation with AI chatbot that became short story
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Nation & World
Does the world need COVID novels?
Too soon or an artistic imperative? Fiction writers reflect on the history, power, challenges of stories in which real life is a dominant character.
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Arts & Culture
Buffeted by unending tides of grief
Namwali Serpell’s novel explores reality, memory, and race, class of broken family after the death of a child.
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Campus & Community
A homecoming
Award-winning fiction writer Namwali Serpell returns to Harvard as professor of English.
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Arts & Culture
A son nearing adulthood, his mom nearing death
Teen’s shady father moves in when his mom is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in new novel by Atticus Lish.
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Arts & Culture
Befriending ‘Clarissa’ during lockdown
With time flattened by quarantine, Professor Deidre Lynch proposed a reading group with her friend Yoon Sun Lee ’87, an English professor at Wellesley College. “Clarissa” was their choice — all 1,500 pages — and the readers soon followed.
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Campus & Community
Colson Whitehead ’91 wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Novelist Colson Whitehead joins William Faulkner, John Updike, and Booth Tarkington as the fourth to garner the Pulitzer Prize for fiction award twice.
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Campus & Community
Authors’ aerie
A photo gallery captures authors at work in the new home of Harvard’s creative writing program atop Lamont Library.
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Science & Tech
Physics, real and fictional
A Harvard study is exploring the way humans’ sense of “intuitive physics” of the real world leaves fingerprints on the fictional universes we create.
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Arts & Culture
Writing about what scares you
Propelled by her viral short story, Harvard alumna Kristen Roupenian publishes her first collection, visits Cambridge.
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Arts & Culture
Horror’s human side
Fiction writer and Briggs-Copeland lecturer Laura van den Berg talks about her new novel, “The Third Hotel.”
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Arts & Culture
The world according to Conrad
Professor Maya Jasanoff talks about her new book, “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.”
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Arts & Culture
Messud on the makings of her ‘Burning Girl’
Claire Messud, senior lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, discusses her latest novel about the joy and pain of middle school as a young woman.
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Arts & Culture
A shady past haunts Rushdie’s ‘House’
Salman Rushdie discussed his new novel, “The Golden House,” in a conversation with Harvard’s Homi Bhabha at First Parish Church.
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Arts & Culture
Letting his fiction wander
Creative writing lecturer Paul Yoon talks to the Gazette about his new book, “The Mountain,” and about his process, teaching, and the thinking behind his new story collection.
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Arts & Culture
Building character
Molly Antopol, a Radcliffe Fellow and author of “The UnAmericans,” talks about the creative process behind her fiction.
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Arts & Culture
Making magic out of 26 letters
Harvard’s creative writing program is growing in creativity and size.
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Arts & Culture
Turns of narrative
An interview with novelist Claire Messud launches a new series in which Harvard writers discuss how their stories take shape.
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Arts & Culture
Israel’s Grossman reflects
The celebrated Israeli novelist David Grossman reflects on writing and warfare. The right has won the debate in his country, he says, but hope for peace remains.
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Campus & Community
A leap across the pond
College seniors Michael George and Anna Hagen have won Marshall Scholarships for graduate work in the United Kingdom.
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Arts & Culture
For writers and students, a break from solitude
Writers in the Parlor connects accomplished novelists and story writers with students.
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Arts & Culture
Between the lines
Three Harvard faculty members divulge an influential book in this installment of Harvard Bound.
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Arts & Culture
A woman’s endless work
Author Claire Messud discussed her latest novel during an appearance at Harvard as part of the Writers at Work series. “Midlife hits people at different times,” said Messud, a former Radcliffe Fellow. “That moment you realize life is finite, it has a horizon.”
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Campus & Community
Staffer publishes second novel
Harvard Kennedy School staffer Matthew Salesses has published “I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying,” a novel in flash fiction.
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Arts & Culture
He wrote the book of love
A neurologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School ponders love and its complexities in his latest book, “What to Read on Love, Not Sex: Freud, Fiction, and the Articulation of Truth in Modern Psychological Science.”
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Arts & Culture
A too-short life, examined
D.T. Max, author of a new biography of David Foster Wallace, sat down with professor and critic James Wood to discuss the writer’s legacy and his brief time at Harvard, a catalyst for the breakdown and recovery that inspired much of Wallace’s masterpiece, “Infinite Jest.”
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Arts & Culture
Of love, death, and garbage
Author Rajesh Parameswaran kicked off this year’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s series of fellow presentations with a discussion that included readings from his well-received debut work, as well as a passage from his novel in progress.
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Campus & Community
HGSE student wins literary prizes
Harvard Graduate School of Education student Rebecca Givens Rolland has won two recent literary prize for her prose and poetry.
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Campus & Community
At long last, literary success
Peter Brown gave up the vagabond life of a poet for a family and a stable IT career in the Harvard Economics Department. Twenty years later, his dark fiction found unexpected success.
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Campus & Community
Work by day, write by night
Matthew Salesses, a faculty and staff assistant at Harvard Kennedy School, moonlights as an up-and-coming fiction writer, editor, columnist, and, soon, a new dad.
