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
Education for the Soul
Why democracy needs the humanities
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Lessons in Surprise
What Admiral Yamamoto learned at Harvard, and a new community garden
Curating Murders
Alfred Alcorn ’64 sets his Harvard-flavored murder mysteries in one of his favorite places: a museum. With audio from an interview with Alcorn.
by Craig Lambert
Fifteen Percent of Immortality
Andrew Wylie '70 runs a powerful literary agency that mixes hardball business and highbrow tastes. With audio from an interview with Wylie.
by Craig Lambert
Updike's Literary Archive: Sneak Preview
Taking a look at the Houghton Library holdings
Harvard Headlines: Childhood, Unorthodox History of Science, and Lordship in the Twelfth Century
Three recent reviews of books by Harvard-affiliated scholars (two faculty members and one alumnus).
John McPhee's Listener
A Paris Review article describes how renowned author John McPhee reads his drafts to his friend Gordon Gund ’61.
Harvard Headlines: In Defense of Weeds, John Tate Wins Abel Prize, and Commencement Humor
Our news roundup includes articles on landscape architecture professor Peter del Tredici and mathematics professor John Tate, and Commencement humor from The Onion.
“Panic in the Year Zero”
A poem by D.A. Powell, from the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises. [audio]