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.
Lawrence Lessig Delivers a Prescription for Reforming American Democracy
How to reform voting and elections in the United States to create a representative democracy
Excerpt from Jack Goldsmith, “In Hoffa’s Shadow”
A new look at “one of the greatest unsolved crimes in American history”
Excerpt from “What We Talk About When We Talk about Books” by Leah Price
A visit to the Harvard Depository
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Lincoln Caplan reviews “When Should Law Forgive?” by Martha Minow
…and don’t always forgive
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Ann Forsyth reviews “Saving America’s Cities” by Lizabeth Cohen
In the history of urban renewal, a glimmer of the possibilities of social policy today
by Ann Forsyth
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas profile
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s “laser beam” insights into the lives of animals and humans
David Damrosch promotes world literature
David Damrosch’s literary global reach