Arts & Culture
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
by Olivia Farrar
Medicine Minus Mythmaking
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
From the Archives: Image and the Arc of Feeling
Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
by Craig Lambert
“I Got Race”
A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.
True Lies
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
by Casey N. Cep
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Slightly Supernatural
In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.
by Lydialyle Gibson
We Would Have Known
A sweeping history of the idea of privacy in America
Cold Comforts
Keith Gessen’s second novel deftly interweaves politics and personal history.
by Maggie Doherty
Comedy Compulsion
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
by Sophia Nguyen
Can Science Justify Itself?
Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now defends science from modern-day foes.
by Ada Palmer