On a fall evening in 1962, two young men on the Harvard campus strike up a conversation. It's a casual collision that might, under other circumstances, be forgotten the next day. Instead, in Joanna ...

The male friendship is a mystery. Partially because of men’s famous inability to communicate with each other (or anyone, really). And partly because it has of late mostly been the province of movies ...

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Joanna Hershon’s novels often feature gripping destinations—from late 19th-century Santa Fe to Baja California—and her latest, A Dual Inheritance, is no exception, with Tanzania, Anguilla, and China ...

Brooklyn author Joanna Hershon’s father attended Harvard in the late 1950s. She was in middle school when she saw what’s known as Harvard’s Red Book, in which graduates write about what they’d done ...

One fall evening in 1962, on the steps of Harvard’s Lamont Library, short, ambitious, Jewish Ed Cantowitz, a scholarship student from Dorchester, encounters tall, lazy, WASP Hugh Shipley, an Ivy ...