Arts & Culture Reading like it’s 1989 Illustration by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff Max Larkin Harvard Staff Writer August 15, 2025 7 min read Report on classroom literature shows staying power for ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Of Mice and Men,’ other classics. Time to move on? Look back 40 years and you’ll see a lot of seismic change. The rise of the Internet, the smartphone revolution, and now AI everywhere. The end of the Cold War and the dawn of many messier conflicts. The overturning of paradigms ...
