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

America as Argentina

Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden review recent U.S. economic woes in the context of the “capital flow cycle.”

Spheres of Knowledge

An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.

by Jennifer Carling , Jonathan Shaw

On Discovering Drugs

David Nathan reviews Brent R. Stockwell's "The Quest for the Cure"

“The Swerve,” by Stephen Greenblatt, Named a National Book Awards Finalist

The Cogan University Professor's recent book, and works by other Harvard authors, reach the finals of the prestigious competition.

Steve Jobs Biographer Is Harvard Overseer

Walter Isaacson ’74 wrote the official biography of the Apple co-founder, to be released October 24.

Putting Stock in Your Doc

In Your Medical Mind, Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband write about beliefs and medical choices.

A Sino-American “Contest for Supremacy”

Aaron L. Friedberg writes that the U.S.-China power balance is a cause for concern.

Andy Borowitz Loosens Up the Library of America

A new anthology of humorous writing joins the shelf of illustrious literary classics.

Beauty, Bounty, Brio, Buoyancy

Seamus Heaney introduces an anniversary album.

Aulus and Me

Reading at the College, and in ancient Rome

by Madeleine Schwartz