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
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
“Global Whitemanism”
The capitalist economy and dark dreams of the slaveholding South
by Michael Bernath
A Bloodbath, Averted
An alumna recounts a refugee crisis in South Africa.
Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude
On crafting a liberal-arts education by reading the classics and shaping one's life course
by Nannerl O. Keohane
A Nearly Perfect Book
The poetry critic, the publisher, and the art of bookmaking in a digital era
by Nathan Heller
Arthur Rosenthal, Longtime Harvard University Press Director, Has Died
His focus on publishing scholarly titles with broader, mass-market appeal helped put HUP back in the black.
On Reading Well
An excerpt from Reuben Brower’s The Fields of Light: An Experiment in Critical Reading
A Literary Garden
Ilona Bell's Yard of Allusions
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Philosophic Fun
A Theory of Justice as musical comedy, and the class of ’44