Nathan Heller

Undergraduate Columns

The college-counseling suite in my high school, with its brochure-laden atrium, drawers of student files, and closed-door conferences, reminded…

Photomontages by Flint Born Some people live at the technological vanguard. They operate their tie racks by remote control and read the…

It’s hard to escape San Francisco, where I grew up, without a car. A couple of commuter trains snake into the suburbs, but once you break past…

More students are venturing abroad, for term or summer study or other experiences, with the College’s encouragement. The first of two…

Nathan Heller is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a film and TV critic, and contributing editor, at Vogue. Previously, Heller was a columnist for Slate, where he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in essays and criticism. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, New York, Bookforum, n+1, and elsewhere. He grew up in San Francisco, and lives in New York.

Selected Articles by Nathan Heller

The poetry critic, the publisher, and the art of bookmaking in a digital era

Tucked into a single room behind a window in Harvard Square, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop is to the world of bookselling what La Sainte…

11.1.06

In the fall of 2003, Juliet Girard ’07 arrived at Harvard with first-rate scientific ambitions and a second-rate education. She had grown…