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
The “Steel Factory”
Ezra Vogel’s monumental biography of Deng Xiaopeng, the doctrinaire pragmatist who modernized China.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections.
Financial Reform: The Doggerel
An ode to transparency
Kennedy: Color Line Persists in U.S. Politics
Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's book calls Obama “enigmatic” on race.
Clayton Christensen Questions Higher Education's Future
The HBS professor predicts that online education will disrupt old models.
Esmeralda Santiago Overcomes Stroke to Publish Epic Novel
The new historical novel by the Harvard-educated author has earned wide praise.
(Un)common Sense
Historian Sophia Rosenfeld examines the origins of politicians' appeals to "common sense."
A Singular Woman’s Biographer
Janny Scott '77 introduces Barack Obama's mother to a wider audience.
by Maya E. Shwayder
The Brain As Art
Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics.
by Sarah Zhang
Ants through the Ages
In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."
by Spencer Lee Lenfield