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
"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
Arianne Cohen Tells Tall Tales
Arianne Cohen ’03 celebrates “life from on high” in a new book that discusses tall people's perspectives and prospects.
Music, Taken Personally
A music critic reviews composer John Adams’s memoir.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Vistas of Perfection
A profile of writer James Agee, at Harvard and beyond
by Adam Kirsch
Chasing Bogeys
A novel book on golf
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Bible and the Almanac
How Pete Seeger got his start: an excerpt from Alec Wilkinson's new biography, The Protest Singer
Laughing at Slavery
In Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, Glenda Carpio describes how slavery has provided a background and a source of raw material for African-American humor.
by Craig Lambert