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.
Open Book: Excerpt from “Tyrant,” by Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt mines Shakespeare to interpret modern times.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
“An Academic Life” by Hanna Holborn Gray reviewed
The former University of Chicago president and Harvard Corporation fellow crafts a timely memoir.
"I want one more shot!": profile of TV writer Nell Scovell
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
Can Science Justify Itself?
Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now defends science from modern-day foes.
by Ada Palmer
Alain Locke as activist aesthete
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch
Excerpt from "The Annotated African American Folktales"
The power and legacy of African-American folktales
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“Gorey’s World” at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum