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.
Making Money Funny
Matt Levine’s spunky Bloomberg column
by Max J. Krupnick
A Poet’s March of Ages
Two Harvard classics professors create the first Virgil Encyclopedia in English.
by Erin O’Donnell
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Made in the U.S.A.
A literary critic on the Great American Novel
by Adam Kirsch
Annals of Anxiety
Scott Stossel ’91 probes anxiety in a personal, revealing, and funny book about a serious subject.
Sestinas from the Clinic
Rafael Campo, M.D., straddles medicine and metonymy.
by Stephen Burt
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Vita: Ann Petry
Brief life of a celebrity-averse novelist: 1908-1997
by Farah Jasmine G...
The Way of The Blockbuster
In entertainment, big bets on likely winners rule.
by Craig Lambert
Extracting the Woodchuck
Robert Frost’s “doubleness,” revealed in his letters—and poems.
by Adam Kirsch
A Novel Refracting Harvard History
Joanna Hershon marshaled period details from the 1960s
by Spencer Lee Lenfield