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.
Brief life of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch
Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839
Excerpt from Amy Tuteur's "Push Back: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting"
Strong words from a combatant in the childbirth wars
Illustrator Andrea Tsurumi, on making art to "fight the shorthand"
In Andrea Tsurumi's comics and illustrated work, life is observed and shown as absurd.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
“Aeneid Book VI,” by Seamus Heaney, reviewed by Richard F. Thomas
A new translation from the Aeneid
Houghton Library Celebrates the Quatercentenary of Shakespeare's Death
Celebrating four centuries of Shakespeare at Harvard
by Olivia Munk
Salem's House of the Seven Gables survives
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem muse was preserved by philanthropist Caroline Emmerton.
“Remembering Monomoy” honors a special part of Cape Cod
Fred Crafts ’50 combines memoir and appreciation of Cape Cod’s natural wonders in Remembering Monomoy.
by Jean Martin
Recent books with Harvard connections
Fireflies, dating and love, growing old, and other recent books with Harvard connections
“The Rise and Fall of American Growth,” reviewed by Shane Greenstein
Definitive economic history—and a debatable, despairing forecast