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 Faculty Debate Plan to Cap A Grades

At a lively meeting, faculty members weighed a grade inflation plan that most agreed is imperfect.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Profile of novelist Yangsze Choo

Malaysian-born Yangsze Choo writes novels infused with the tropical mysteries of her childhood.

by Stuart Miller

Rare books at risk

Consequences of book-breaking

by Diane E. Booton

“Write Your Own Songs”

An Oscar-nominated collaboration

by Olivia Munk

And the Academy Award Goes to…Math

Ben Zauzmer '15 tackles Oscars predictions, with math. 

by Jacob Sweet

Houghton unveils TS Eliot letter about his muse Emily Hale

A bombshell letter from modernist poet T.S. Eliot, 50 years after his death

by Lydialyle Gibson

Negatively Curved Crystals

A Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.

by Drew Pendergrass

The Rittase Touch

What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932

by Drew Pendergrass

The A.R.T.’s “Gloria: A Life“

“Gloria: A Life,” at the American Repertory Theater

by Nell Porter-Brown