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.
Last Chapter
The Harvard University Press display room closes its doors.
Lester Named New Yorker Managing Editor
Amelia Lester ’05 is a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine.
A New Look at Harvard Mountaineer Bradford Washburn
The life of mountaineer, pioneering aerial photographer, and Museum of Science leader H. Bradford Washburn, newly chronicled by fellow mountaineer David Roberts ’65.
Sijo: Korea's Answer to Haiku?
Professor David McCann wants an ancient form of Korean poetry to catch on the way haiku has.
Reading the "Five-foot Shelf" of Harvard Classics
A new book documents a Princetonian’s year-long immersion in the Harvard Classics, the venerable "Five-foot Shelf" of Great Books.
Cultures in Conflict
Paul M. Barrett reviews “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West,” by Christopher Caldwell ’83
by Paul M. Barrett
Shuttered Behind Bars
In a new book, photographer Bruce Jackson presents old ID photo portraits from an Arkansas prison.
by Craig Lambert
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
"Days With the Family Realist"
A poem for the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
Slaying Dragons
A crime novelist explores the deepest cracks in the human heart.
by Nell Porter-Brown