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.
MV Mycological’s shiitakes
The farmers at MV Mycological hope so.
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
by Jacob Sweet
Rafael Campo of HMS: a profile by Lydialyle Gibson
Rafael Campo’s compassionate care
Justice Holmes, presented by Stephen Budiansky and Lincoln Caplan
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
Excerpt from “Furious Hours,” by Casey Cep
Casey Cep’s debut book, on a murder trial and Harper Lee
Graphic novelist Amy Chu
Graphic novelist Amy Chu
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
From Susan Ware, a new story of U.S. women’s suffrage struggle
Fresh portraits of U.S. foot soldiers for women’s right to vote
Excerpt from Anne Harrington’s “Mind Fixers”
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words