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.
Weld Boathouse gains Ellen Kennelly sculpture
Ellen Kennelly ’85 has created a new glass sculpture for Weld Boathouse.
Excerpt from Charles Gross’s A Hole in the Head
An excerpt from A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience, by Charles Gross ’57
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
David Warsh reviews "This Time Is Different" by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff
David Warsh reviews This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff.
by David Warsh
Nanoscience in photographs
In words and images, George M. Whitesides and Felice. C. Frankel explicate tools, concepts, and applications in nanoscience.
Books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Harvard radio wits of NPR’s “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”
Three Harvard graduates help create the weekly humor of NPR’s Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!
Anthropologist Heather Paxson studies American artisanal cheese
Heather Paxson explores the anthropology of American artisanal cheese.
Former financier Norb Vonnegut’s investment-world thriller
Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.
Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece, reconstructed
Sixty paintings once adorned the altarpiece of a Franciscan church in the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro. View illustrations from the modern-day reconstruction.