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 Alum Wins Economics Nobel Prize
Philippe Aghion helped show how “creative destruction” drives growth.
Profile of novelist and TV doctor Ian K. Smith
Ian K. Smith’s turn toward detective fiction
Profile of Megha Majumdar and her smash debut novel, “A Burning”
Megha Majumdar’s novel of India resonates in the United States.
Boston Book Festival
A literary festival for children and adults
At Home with Harvard: Theater & Broadway
Harvardians take to the stage.
Bringing Black History to Light
A Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Fall semester interrupted, a century ago
by Matteo Wong
How the Lines Get Bent
Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
by Matteo Wong
Author Gabrielle Zevin profiled by Nell Porter Brown
A prescient novelist is hopeful that “after great change, amazing things can happen.”
Callimachus
Brief life of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
by Stephanie Burt , Mark Payne
Playwright Katori Hall on the joy—and trauma—of black life
Playwright Katori Hall on the joy—and trauma—of black life