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.
Eating for the Holidays, the Planet, and Your Heart
“Sustainable eating,” and healthy recipes you can prepare for the holidays.
From Soaps to Solos
Operatic bass Ethan Herschenfeld sings around the world, but also enjoys acting on TV (Damages)...
Vintage Brevities
The Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library has recently become home to more than 10,000 map postcards...
Shakespeare, Lost and Found
How could it be that a Shakespeare play currently being performed at the American Repertory Theatre was actually written not by The Bard, but by two men of Harvard?
John Chervinsky
Photograph by Stu Rosner John Chervinsky Like many people, John Chervinsky takes his work home. But what this lab engineer takes home may one...
Identity Seeker
Sergio Troncoso ’83 showed up in Cambridge in 1979 with a suitcase full of T-shirts brought from his hometown on the Texas-Mexico border...
by Liz Goodwin
Glass Jelly
The blue beauty at left is Porpita mediterranea rendered in glass, reproduced here at about twice life size. These jellies, moved by wind and...
Sleuths in Love
Screenwriter turned novelist Eric Lerner ’71 finds his voice...
A Scatter of Acorns
Excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 memoir The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball...
Underground Party
Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling Times Square subway station in Manhattan now have some...
Off the Shelf
Yeltsin: A Life, by Timothy J. Colton, Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies (Basic Books, $35). A monumental biography of the...