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
Woolf Hunters
Rare-book dealers Jon and Margaret Richardson are fans of the Bloomsbury Group.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
From a Rebound to a Slam Dunk
Sportscaster J.B. Brown writes about his "Role of a Lifetime"
by Melanie E. Long
Intellectual Entrepreneurs
Three Harvard Advocate alumni helped found a highbrow literary periodical.
Anatomy as Entertainment
An excerpt from A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience, by Charles Gross ’57
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
What This Country Needs
David Warsh reviews This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff.
by David Warsh
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street
Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.
by Craig Lambert
Pictures in the Square
A new book of photographs tells Harvard Square’s history since the 1950s. Test your own Square knowledge for a chance to win a copy of the book.
by Craig Lambert
29-29, Forever
A new DVD and book capture the legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale game.