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.

Harvard and City Leaders Celebrate ERC Opening

Phase A of the Allston project includes a hotel, residences, and a two-acre greenway.

by Laurel M. Shugart

A Tale of Two Detectives

Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre.

by Paul Gleason

Seriously Funny

Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...

by Craig Lambert

Works and Woods

Architecture and ecology in Japan...

by Paul Gleason

Young Audubon

Jean-Jacques Audubon did not become the internationally celebrated John James Audubon of The Birds of America overnight...

An Intimate Look at Zuckerberg and Other High-Tech Figures

Hafner writes that Lacy's "explanation of how venture capital works is instructive and clear, perhaps one of the best yet written for a general readership."

A Familiar Tale, Told With Style

Those in search of summer beach reading might pick up The Romantics, a new novel by Galt Niederhoffer ’97...

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words...

Thoroughly Eclectic

Performer Eisa Davis, now starring on Broadway in Passing Strange, stays open to her many artistic passions, including playwriting (Bulrusher, Angela's Mixtape) and singing (her devut album is Something Else)...

by Julia Wallace

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections...

From Soaps to Solos

Operatic bass Ethan Herschenfeld sings around the world, but also enjoys acting on TV (Damages)...

by Daniela Amini