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.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Art, history, and food in Providence, R.I.
Car-free fun in downtown Providence
The Art of Protest
“It doesn’t even make sense to me that art and protest would be separate.”
“Presenting Jane," and a youthful summer for the New York School
A rediscovered short film, with new commentary by Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery ’49, Litt.D. ’01, gives a glimpse of the New York School's early days.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum's Moby-Dick marathon
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Brief life of Alan Seeger, poet and soldier in World War I
Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916
Open Book: Bruegel’s Crowd Paintings
Crowd painting that attracts crowds.
Profile of poet Jean Valentine
Poet Jean Valentine on literary companionship
Recent books with Harvard Connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Fusion fantasy: a profile of translator and fiction writer Ken Liu
Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.