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.

Harvard Football: Harvard 59, Stetson 7

In season opener, the Crimson dispatch the overmatched Hatters.

by Dick Friedman

The Last of His Kind: A new biography of mountaineer and photographer H. Bradfor

The life of mountaineer, pioneering aerial photographer, and Museum of Science leader H. Bradford Washburn, newly chronicled by fellow mountaineer David Roberts ’65.

David McCann wants sijo, an ancient form of Korean poetry, to catch on.

Professor David McCann wants an ancient form of Korean poetry to catch on the way haiku has.

Great books teach life lessons: Christopher Beha reads the Harvard Classics cove

A new book documents a Princetonian’s year-long immersion in the Harvard Classics, the venerable "Five-foot Shelf" of Great Books.

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

"Days With the Family Realist"

A poem for the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises

Slaying Dragons

A crime novelist explores the deepest cracks in the human heart.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Love Nest

The most romantic tent in town

by Christopher Reed

Feeding an Addiction

Enlisting the food industry in the fight against obesity

Letters & Letterman

Bill Scheft ‘79 writes comedy for David Letterman, as well as novels.

by Craig Lambert

The Hajj, Screened Large

"Journey to Mecca," co-produced by Taran Davies ’93, is a new IMAX film about the Hajj.

by Craig Lambert