Arts & Culture
Explore Harvard’s vibrant arts scene—from campus exhibitions and theater to cultural analysis and literary reviews. Discover how creativity shapes the Harvard experience.
Thomas Andrew “Tom” Lehrer
The mathematician and satirist kept Harvard in his thoughts—and lyrics
Explore handcrafted Ipswich rum, Cape Cod's farms, and b.good's real fast food
Alumni promote the local origins of edible goods
Virgil Encyclopedia in English
Two Harvard classics professors create the first Virgil Encyclopedia in English.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Adam Kirsch reviews Lawrence Buell on the Great American Novel
A literary critic on the Great American Novel
by Adam Kirsch
Cityscapes by Derek Reist feature sunlight and shadow
Sunlight and shadow star in Derek Reist’s urban landscapes.
by Steve Potter
The Atlantic’s Scott Stossel on anxiety
Scott Stossel ’91 probes anxiety in a personal, revealing, and funny book about a serious subject.
Alterrnative Medicine, poetry book by physician Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo, M.D., straddles medicine and metonymy.
by Stephen Burt
Recent books on reading, Bernard Berenson, neutrino hunters, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections
Seedpod photographs by Anna Laurent
Little packages of DNA that explode with beauty
Brief life of novelist Ann Petry, by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Brief life of a celebrity-averse novelist: 1908-1997