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.
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