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

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