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.
A Man in Motion
An excerpt from Tocqueville's Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Pleasure by Proxy
Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.
by Craig Lambert
Theatrical Chiaroscuro
Fredric Wilson’s book The Theatrical World of Angus McBean collects British midcentury theater images.
by Craig Lambert
Harvard Anthropologist's Book Inspires Oscar-Nominated Film
Kimberly Theidon's book on female victims of Peruvian violence was the basis for The Milk of Sorrow, nominated for best foreign-language film.
Harvard Headlines: Fiction by E.O. Wilson, David Cutler on Healthcare, and More
Our roundup also includes a New Yorker profile of U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan and a review of the work of architect Jeanne Gang, both Harvard graduates.
Following the Monuments Men
See the routes four Harvard-affiliated Monuments Men followed as they traveled through Europe rescuing looted art from the Nazis.
Atul Gawande's New Book, Reviewed
The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.
The Art Army
Harvard’s Monuments Men at war