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
Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections
Fiction in Counterpoint
A novel, Sound, notated like a musical score
by Craig Lambert
Over and Done
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on life's liberating exits
Two Steps to Free Will
Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.
by Craig Lambert
Wow. Huh?
A World Palindrome Champion, a sleuthing architect, and Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner
Chapter and Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Thinking Outside the Pack
Robert Proctor’s Golden Holocaust urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.
Owl, Pussycat
A bicentennial exhibition features the little-known, masterful animal artistry of Edward Lear.
by Christopher Reed
The Case for Compromise
Continuous campaigning and gridlocked governing in American politics
by Amy Gutmann , Dennis Thompson