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
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Fiction of Limbo
Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.
by Bailey Trela
Chapter & Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.
Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse
Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
by Bennett McIntosh
A Mind of One’s Own
Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
by Nell Porter-Brown
“Wild Dreams”
Malaysian-born Yangsze Choo writes novels infused with the tropical mysteries of her childhood.
by Stuart Miller
“Cut Missal Up…”
Consequences of book-breaking
by Diane E. Booton
Karl May
Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912
by Eugene Stelzig
Deep Roots
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.
by Olivia Schwob