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.
Excerpt from Sophia Rosenfeld, "Common Sense: A Political History"
Historian Sophia Rosenfeld examines the origins of politicians' appeals to "common sense."
Closeup of a work by sculptor Robert Gober at the Harvard Art Museums
Dysfunctional sink with body parts
Profile of Janny Scott, author of "A Singular Woman"
Janny Scott '77 introduces Barack Obama's mother to a wider audience.
Carl Schoonover and "Portraits of the Mind" merge science and aesthetics
Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics.
by Sarah Zhang
E.O. Wilson is coauthor of two new ant books
In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman's "Debtor Nation"
Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman's Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink.
Review of The Herb Lyceum restaurant at Gilson’s Farm, Groton, Massachusetts
Conviviality, slow food, and the freshest herbs around
Stephen Greenblatt traces how Lucretius in "De Rerum Natura" shaped the present
Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.
Photographer David Arnold and others document coral reefs in decline
The world's most fragile marine ecosystems are in decline.