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.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Boston by Foot’s “Dark Side of Boston” tour
“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon in the Spotlight
Fresh efforts to understand the writer’s history and craft
Laura van den Berg and “The Third Hotel”
In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.
Excerpt from “The Known Citizen” by Sarah E. Igo
A sweeping history of the idea of privacy in America
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Book review: “A Terrible Country” is a cold, welcome wind
Keith Gessen’s second novel deftly interweaves politics and personal history.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“Our Towns” highlights a positive force in American life
James ’70 and Deborah Fallows ’71 explore “what the hell is happening in America.”