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.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes

Journalist, novelist, and social scientist honored

by Oset Babür

Harvard Business professor Mihir A. Desai ties finance to the humanities

A Business School professor ties finance and humanities together.

A natural history of Martha’s Vineyard, and other books with Harvard connections

A natural history of Martha’s Vineyard, and other books with Harvard connections

Review of Daniel Ziblatt, “Conservative Political Parties”

Scholarly lessons from Europe prove pertinent today.

by Daniel J. Solomon

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Harvard Undergraduate columnist on exclusive organizations

The Undergraduate wrestles with The Advocate’s exclusive comp process. 

by Lily Scherlis

Yellow Wolf's Silence: The Untold Nez Perce War Story

Brief life of a Native American witness to history: c. 1855-1935

by Daniel J. Sharfstein

Logic Is a Little Magazine That Asks Big Questions about the Tech Industry

Four alums foster Logic, a new magazine focusing on a complex tech world on fire.

by Oset Babür

Susan Cain foments the "Quiet Revolution."

Susan Cain foments the “Quiet Revolution.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Houghton Library 75th anniversary exhibition

A humanistic “masterclass” for Houghton Library's seventy-fifth anniversary