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
Recent books with Harvard connections
Devoted to Debt
Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman's Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink.
by Nancy F. Koehn
Swerves
Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.
by Christian Flow
Fakery and Shakespeare
A con man, his son, and a fiction on two levels
by Amelia Atlas
On “Inspiration” and an Ohio Swimming Hole
Orator Joyce Carol Oates and poet Henri Cole at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
Phi Beta Kappa to Feature Joyce Carol Oates, Henri Cole
The author will speak, and the poet will read, on May 24.
Civil War Reawakened
Adam Goodheart's new book explores the Civil War.
Poetic Paschen
The Chicago poet has spread the good wordings via book, CD—and subway.
by Craig Lambert
Medical Alumnus Wins Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. '00, is honored for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
Echoes of the Central Valley
Chicano writer Manuel Muñoz ’94 mines the “humanizing effect of literature.”
by Nell Porter-Brown