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.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Review of Maurice Charney's “Wrinkled Deep in Time”

Adam Kirsch review Maurice Charney’s Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare.

by Adam Kirsch

An excerpt from "Tocqueville's Discovery of America," by Leo Damrosch

An excerpt from Tocqueville's Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Quotation Q and A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

American composer Johnny Green

Brief life of a conflicted musician: 1908-1989

by Sol Hurwitz

Nineteenth-century dancing lessons

A professor's passion reveals how one learned to dance in Jane Austen's day.

by Christopher Reed

The Brattle Theatre shows Mynette Louie's film Children of Invention

Boston-area readers can catch the film in Harvard Square starting this weekend. Producer Mynette Louie ’97 will appear at some screenings.

Video clips from Children of Invention, produced by Mynette Louie

Despite winning multiple prizes, the film—produced by Mynette Louie ’97—has struggled to find an audience or turn a profit in an uncertain time for indie film.

Oscar nominees include film from book by Harvard anthropologist Kimberly Theidon

Kimberly Theidon's book on female victims of Peruvian violence was the basis for The Milk of Sorrow, nominated for best foreign-language film.

Alex Ross Argues for Presenting Classical Music in Unorthodox Settings

New Yorker music critic Alex Ross ’90 argues for presenting classical music in unorthodox settings.