Arts & Culture
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
by Olivia Farrar
Glorious “Genji”
A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
A Millennial Mystery
…and a possible clue in the stacks
by Diane E. Booton
The Juggler’s Tale
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
by Sophia Nguyen
Millicent Todd Bingham
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
by Julie Dobrow
Medicine Minus Mythmaking
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Coming Apart Together
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Weight of Scale
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
The Devil and Philip Johnson
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
by Spencer Lee Lenfield