Books & Literary Life
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
On Unintended Consequences
Essayist Edward Tenner on technology’s pitfalls
Bill Gates on AI and Innovation
At Harvard, the Microsoft co-founder discusses his biography—and artificial intelligence.
by Olivia Farrar
A Return to the Beloved Community
Poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy
by Lydialyle Gibson
Jimmy Carter and James Agee ’32
Why this “sovereign prince of the English language” touched the president’s heart
by Lincoln Caplan
History and Love in Haiti
Alumna Nadine Pinede’s young-adult novel—in verse
by Lydialyle Gibson
Justice and “Despair”
A critical analysis of “settler colonialism”
Off the Shelf
Recent books about Iraq, academic writing, John Singer Sargent, “eldercide,” and more
A More Generous, Capacious America
The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors
by Christoph Irmscher
Off the Shelf
Books about the art and science of eating, on being Zen, helping youngsters grow up, and more
Harvard, H.H.R., Houghton
Invaluable architectural archive published at last
by John S. Rosenberg