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.
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Sage Stossel's graphic novel, Starling, depicts an anti-superheroine.
“Starling” can handle thugs and palookas, but not daily life.
The sabermetric revolution
Economist Andrew Zimbalist analyzes the sabermetric revolution
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Innovation in humanities courses aims to reach larger numbers of students
New gateways into the humanities for students “still fully molten as human beings”
At Harvard, Dava Sobel discusses what convinced Copernicus to publish his work
At Harvard, Dava Sobel discusses the conversation that convinced Copernicus to publish his lifework.
A tribute to Justin Kaplan
In tribute to an old friend
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. letters liberalism
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s "fighting faith" in liberalism, revealed in his letters
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books on evolution, island Ireland, Jonathan Swift, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections