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.
James Madison biography by Noah Feldman reviewed by Lincoln Caplan
Lincoln Caplan reviews Noah Feldman’s The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf: Recent Books with Harvard Connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Father Columba Stewart of Hill Museum & Manuscript Library is profiled
A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.
Children's-book author Nancy Churnin is profiled
Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.
by Sanya Sagar
Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
Excerpt from “Off the Charts,” by Ann Hulbert
Parents and superkids, then and now
by Ann Hulbert
Excerpt from "Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing," by Victoria Sweet, M.D.
A doctor’s take on the destruction of medicine
Dara Horn, author of "Eternal Life," profiled
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.
Frank Bidart wins the 2017 National Book Award for poetry
Five other Harvardians were also honored by the National Book Foundation.