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.
Making Money Funny
Matt Levine’s spunky Bloomberg column
by Max J. Krupnick
“Like Driving at Night”
Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel
by Dan Kelly
Culture in the Cold War
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
A Gate of Whimsy
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
by Jacob Sweet
Attention to Detail
Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.
by Lydialyle Gibson
A Lone Star Saga
Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Curator of American Culture
Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Picturing America
“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art
by Nell Porter-Brown
See Their Faces
Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
“To Break Our Own Rules”
Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers
by Lydialyle Gibson
Family History
A German American scholar is unsettled by an ancestor’s secret.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova