Arts & Culture
Harvard Commencement Day 2025
The 374th Commencement exercises
by Jonathan Shaw
A Man in Motion
An excerpt from Tocqueville's Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
John Waldo Green
Brief life of a conflicted musician: 1908-1989
by Sol Hurwitz
Dancing School
A professor's passion reveals how one learned to dance in Jane Austen's day.
by Christopher Reed
Pleasure by Proxy
Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.
by Craig Lambert
Indie Film Blues
Film producer Mynette Louie ’97 on films, audiences, and the quest to connect them.
by Kevin Hartnett
Theatrical Chiaroscuro
Fredric Wilson’s book The Theatrical World of Angus McBean collects British midcentury theater images.
by Craig Lambert
Brattle Theatre to Screen “Children of Invention”
Boston-area readers can catch the film in Harvard Square starting this weekend. Producer Mynette Louie ’97 will appear at some screenings.
Video Clips: Children of Invention
Despite winning multiple prizes, the film—produced by Mynette Louie ’97—has struggled to find an audience or turn a profit in an uncertain time for indie film.