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
From War Zones to the North Shore
A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
by Lydialyle Gibson
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.
by Nancy Walecki
Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists
An historian, a poet, and a translator
by Lydialyle Gibson
A Long Night's Journey in Palestine
William Tamplin, Ph.D. ’20, on the lyricism and secrecy of an Arabic literary pioneer
by Lydialyle Gibson
Wendy Lesser's "Threepenny Review"
The revered literary magazine editor discusses the writing (and reading) life.
by Lydialyle Gibson
The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes
Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
by Lydialyle Gibson
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
by Jacob Sweet
Music and Language, Reconciled
Matthew Aucoin on opera
by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Looking for the Real Stan Lee
Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur
by Dan Kelly