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
Toni Morrison: “Goodness Lurks Backstage”
The author discusses altruism and the literary imagination in the 2012 Ingersoll Lecture.
Vita: Alexandre Dumas
Brief life of the soldier who inspired The Count of Monte Cristo: 1762-1806
by Tom Reiss
Bluffer-in-Chief
In Evan Thomas's new biography, President Eisenhower emerges as a canny nuclear strategist.
Off the Shelf
Recent books by John Updike, Marjorie Garber, George Vaillant, Thomas McGraw, and others with Harvard connections
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Press Women
Ellen Faran ’73 and Gita Manaktala ’87 advance knowledge through publishing.
by Katherine Xue
Jorie Graham Wins Poetry Prize
The poet's book Places won the 2012 Forward prize for a poetry collection.
Reform School
Harvard’s long-closed Social Museum promoted progressive values.
by Christopher Reed
Chapter and Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
America the Politically Unequal
Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.
by Andrea Louise C...