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.

Open Book: A New Nuclear Age

Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy’s latest book looks at the rising danger of a new arms race.

Harvardians make long list for National Book Awards

Eight University affiliates are recognized by the National Book Foundation.

"Harvard Volunteers in World War I: One Hundred Years After" appears in tribute

Harvard’s World War I participants are honored in an updated volume edited by Douglass M. Carver ’59.

A World War I Harvard aviator, plus a Game-worthy car buff and his wheels

A World War I Harvard aviator, plus a Game-worthy car buff and his wheels

An excerpt from "To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party"

In To Make Men Free, Heather Cox Richardson seeks to explain the back-and-forth history of Republican Party goals.

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Review of Thomas Forrest Kelly’s “Capturing Music,” by Anna Zayaruznaya

The recording of songs and sounds past—a history of musical notation in the West

by Anna Zayaruznaya

Events at Harvard and throughout Greater Boston in November and December

Events on and off campus during November and December

James Laughlin at Harvard, by Ian S. MacNiven, from LITERCHOOR IS MY BEAT

James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing

History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative

Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.

by Jonathan Shaw

Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.

Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.

by Craig Lambert