Arts & Culture
David Deming Announced as Harvard College Dean
Economist, Kirkland House faculty dean to succeed Rakesh Khurana
by Max J. Krupnick
Darkness Visible
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
by Jennifer Gersten
Medicine Minus Mythmaking
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Coming Apart Together
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Weight of Scale
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
The Devil and Philip Johnson
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
“Party Animals”
Drinking in style, from antiquity to the 1960s
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Twyla Tharp: “Minimalism and Me”
A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA
by Nell Porter-Brown
Photography in Baldwin’s Era
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
by Brandon J. Dixon
Place-Making with Plastic Tubes
An installation in Harvard Yard creates space to reflect on identity, culture, and visibility.
by Oset Babür
From the Archives: Image and the Arc of Feeling
Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
by Craig Lambert