Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner
Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.
Callimachus
Brief life of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
by Stephanie Burt , Mark Payne
Ceridwen Dovey’s “Life After Truth”
How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
Colson Whitehead '91 wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Nickel Boys wins the 2020 prize for fiction.
Walter Johnson writes about “The Broken Heart of America”
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
Rebecca Henderson, “Reimagining Capitalism” to save the planet
The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Novelist Paul Yoon and “Run Me to Earth”
Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.
by Bailey Trela
“The Equivalents,” by Maggie Doherty, reviewed by Susan Ware
From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute
by Susan Ware
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words