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.
For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner
Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.
New York Film Festival program director Richard Peña
Richard Peña ’75 is program director of the New York Film Festival.
Books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Review of "Half the Sky," on the oppression of women
A review of Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
by Rohini Pande
Biographical sketch of French artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
A brief profile of an enterprising French artist
Amelia Lester named New Yorker managing editor
Amelia Lester ’05 is a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine.
The Boston Globe reviews "The Windmill Movie"
The Boston Globe reviews The Windmill Movie, a film about Richard Rogers ’67, edited and directed by his former filmmaking student, Alexander Olch ’99.
The Last of His Kind: A new biography of mountaineer and photographer H. Bradfor
The life of mountaineer, pioneering aerial photographer, and Museum of Science leader H. Bradford Washburn, newly chronicled by fellow mountaineer David Roberts ’65.
David McCann wants sijo, an ancient form of Korean poetry, to catch on.
Professor David McCann wants an ancient form of Korean poetry to catch on the way haiku has.
Great books teach life lessons: Christopher Beha reads the Harvard Classics cove
A new book documents a Princetonian’s year-long immersion in the Harvard Classics, the venerable "Five-foot Shelf" of Great Books.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections