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.
Review of Maurice Charney's “Wrinkled Deep in Time”
Adam Kirsch review Maurice Charney’s Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare.
by Adam Kirsch
An excerpt from "Tocqueville's Discovery of America," by Leo Damrosch
An excerpt from Tocqueville's Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Pleasure by Proxy: How Other People’s Experiences Help Predict Happiness
Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.
A new book collects theater photographs by Angus McBean
Fredric Wilson’s book The Theatrical World of Angus McBean collects British midcentury theater images.
Oscar nominees include film from book by Harvard anthropologist Kimberly Theidon
Kimberly Theidon's book on female victims of Peruvian violence was the basis for The Milk of Sorrow, nominated for best foreign-language film.
Fiction by E.O. Wilson, David Cutler on healthcare, and more
Our roundup also includes a New Yorker profile of U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan and a review of the work of architect Jeanne Gang, both Harvard graduates.
Monuments Men map
See the routes four Harvard-affiliated Monuments Men followed as they traveled through Europe rescuing looted art from the Nazis.
Reviews of "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande
The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.