Arts & Culture
Danielle Allen Debates Far-Right Blogger Curtis Yarvin
Popular monarchist debates Allen on democracy.
by Max J. Krupnick
“A Kind of Justice in the World”
Ian K. Smith’s turn toward detective fiction
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Fire in “A Burning”
Megha Majumdar’s novel of India resonates in the United States.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Staff Pick: Boston Book Festival
A literary festival for children and adults
by Nell Porter-Brown
At Home with Harvard: Theater & Broadway
Harvardians take to the stage.
Bringing Black History to Light
A Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
by Lydialyle Gibson
How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Fall semester interrupted, a century ago
by Matteo Wong
How the Lines Get Bent
Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
by Matteo Wong
Seriously Goofy
Comedian Karen Chee finds her voice.
by Jacob Sweet
The Arts as Essential Goods
A prescient novelist is hopeful that “after great change, amazing things can happen.”
by Nell Porter-Brown
Callimachus
Brief life of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
by Stephanie Burt , Mark Payne