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.

Sam Liss to Head Harvard’s Office for Technology Development

Technology licensing and corporate partnerships are an important source of revenue for the University.

by Jonathan Shaw

Freeing Speech

Anthony Lewis’s Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment offers a lucid and engaging overview of American...

Solar Sculptor

Michael Kapetan’s sundials don’t do “clock time”...

by Cara Feinberg

Chapter & Verse

Michael Comenetz asks if the phrase “Galloping Gordon,” sometimes applied to British prime minister Gordon Brown, originated with...

This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This Harvard~Part Three

Harvard-specific adaptation of a Shakespearean excerpt by playwright Alison Carey ’82...

Now That's What You Call the "Reader's Digest" Version

Lizzie Widdicombe ’06 chronicles her attendance at a book party for Not Quite What I Was Planning, a compilation of six-word memoirs...

Set Design for Grease

Theatrical set designer Derek McLane ’80 shows how his work progresses — from initial sketches on a yellow legal pad through the musical’s finished sets...

Past the Peak

Nearly 50 years after declaring their independence, Americans were electrified by the triumphant return of the Marquis de Lafayette, eager to...

History Bronzed

Harvard people with medals they aren’t sure what to do with have often given them to the University. Many of these impressions of history...

Off the Shelf

How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now (Free Press, $35), by James L. Kugel, formerly Starr professor of Hebrew literature...

Moving Pictures, Hard Questions

It was a rare rainy night in Los Angeles. Filling up his tank at a local gas station, a man noticed the silhouette of another man, just beyond...