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.
Promoting the arts and humanities at Harvard Medical School
This fall, Harvard Medical School will launch a new program to promote the arts and humanities.
by Zara Zhang
Harvard’s Robin Kelsey on photography
Robin Kelsey probes the place of photography within art.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“Evolving Ourselves,” by Enriquez and Gullans, reviewed by Katherine Xue
Tall tales from biology’s Wild West
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
T.S. Eliot as a Harvard student
A rediscovery of the emerging poet
by Adam Kirsch
Harvard novelist Lauren Willig plans the next plot twist in her career
From lawyering to a literary life.
Craig Lambert on shadow work
A Harvard Magazine alumnus on the new world of “middle-class serfdom”
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard professor critiques book on youth, maturity
A philosopher’s take on individuals and maturity, in a world of institutions