Arts & Culture

Pulitzer Prize in the foreground with Radcliffe Institute in the background

University News |

The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced

Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture

by Olivia Farrar

A collage of emblematic figures in American history set against the Stars and Stripes

Right Now | March-April 2021

Culture in the Cold War

In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Solomon Gate in an open position.

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2021

A Gate of Whimsy

At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard

by Jacob Sweet

Head and torso of a man painted by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Montage | March-April 2021

Attention to Detail

Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photograph of author Justin Deabler

Montage | March-April 2021

A Lone Star Saga

Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones poses stylishly in a studio

Alumni | March-April 2021

Curator of American Culture

Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Three people in 1950s New York

Harvard Squared | January-February 2021

Picturing America

“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of the cover of To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes

Books & Literary Life |

See Their Faces

Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Portrait photograph of a middle-aged Lorenzo Tañada as a Philippine senator

Features | November-December 2020

Lorenzo Tañada

Brief life of a Philippine patriot: 1898-1992

by Christopher Capozzola

Black and white photo of a group of Vietnamese children, titled “Schoolchildren Playing Cards”

Montage | November-December 2020

Finding Other Streets

Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew

by Dan Kelly

Dan Chiasson at home in front of a “sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing” mural by David Teng Olsen, which appears in The Math Campers.

Montage | November-December 2020

“To Break Our Own Rules”

Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers

by Lydialyle Gibson