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The Harvard Brief
Interviews with authors of Harvard UP books.
October 6, 2026
Conspiracy
Pundits, scholars, and the general public alike have argued that conspiratorial thinking is the greatest threat to liberal democracy. In Conspiracy: T…
October 2, 2026
Credit to the Nation
From a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banking and enabled the economic and social advanc…
October 1, 2026
How Girls Achieve
How Girls Achieve points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs what Dr. S…
September 19, 2026
Between Fixed and Fickle
Between Fixed and Fickle: Why Our Moral Views Keep Changing (Harvard UP, 2026), a psychologist explains why—and how—moral views change across differen…
September 7, 2026
By Flesh and Toil
From the beginning of the seventeenth century, French colonies and trading posts sprawled across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In the first pan-impe…
September 6, 2026
An Unchosen People
The story of Polish Jewry, pre-Holocaust Europe’s largest Jewish community, is often told as one of creativity and contestation. In his new book, An U…
August 21, 2026
Pentagon Capitalism
The strategic landscape of the Cold War generated political support for a permanent US military force of unprecedented scale. Faced with the problem o…
August 21, 2026
The Age of Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth century. He published hundreds of articles on modern history…
August 11, 2026
The University
We often idealize the university as a sanctuary for disinterested reason, where material concerns are set aside in favor of higher principles. Yet whe…
July 24, 2026
Performing Transgression
What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan (Harvard University P…
July 16, 2026
Fascism in India
Fascism swept the world in the 1920s and 1930s, but not only because of the seductive rhetoric of Mussolini, Hitler, and their collaborators. In India…
July 13, 2026
Nature of Nurture
Children who grow up in troubled circumstances―experiencing deprivation or instability, living in a dangerous neighborhood or an abusive family―are mo…
July 5, 2026
Disposable Workers
A revealing look at the decline in formal employment in favor of hiring contractors, freelancers, temps, and marginal workers, who are excluded from t…
June 3, 2026
The Making of China's Post Office
How did a vast, nationwide institution like a modern postal system come into being in Qing China — right at the very end of the empire? In The Maki…
May 25, 2026
Meanings of Antiquity
Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan (Harvard UP, 2023) is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, record…
May 22, 2026
Furious Harvests
Furious Harvests (Harvard University Press, 2026) transports readers to Alex Averbuch’s homeland of eastern Ukraine. Amid the bloody destruction b…
April 28, 2026
The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals
In the thirteenth-century Mediterranean, commerce transformed as merchants shifted from Roman to Indo-Arabic numerals—an alternative that better facil…
April 21, 2026
Maladies of Empire
Jim Downs’ most recent book is Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. Professor Downs is the Gilder Lehrman-Natio…
April 21, 2026
The First Social Democracy
Following the collapse of the Russian Empire, the small nation of Georgia established its independence in May 1918. Its leaders surprised the world by…
April 9, 2026
Panini's Perfect Rule
Panini’s Ashtadyayi is one of the most famous works in Sanskrit, a so-called “linguistic machine” that, through its 4,000 words, allows someone to gen…