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

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Jewish Jokes, Theoretically

Does in-group humor displace political action?

by Daniel Klein

How to Not Be Clueless

Navigating the smartphone world

by Isabel Ruane

Harvard Square, the Novel

A café-goers' view of Cambridge, a generation ago

by Jesse Kornbluth

Literary Gardening

A Berkshire yard that recalls poetry, fiction, and drama

by Craig Lambert

Addressing a Decline in Humanities Enrollment

How to reinvigorate the humanities at Harvard is the subject of new faculty reports

Bicoastal Poet, Beat Reporter

August Kleinzahler and Linda Greenhouse to speak at Commencement-week PBK Literary Exercises

Tom Reiss ’86 Wins Pulitzer for Biography

Bailyn, Kayyem, Wen named finalists.

Harvard Portrait: Martin Puchner

The English professor has already written three books and edited the 6,000-page third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature.

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words