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.
Seamus Heaney has died
The Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory emeritus honored Harvard through his teaching and his words.
Photographer Diana Mara Henry publishes her collection "Women on the Move"
Photographer Diana Mara Henry ’69 publishes her collection Women on the Move.
Facing declining enrollments, the humanities reinvent themselves
Facing declining enrollments, the humanities seek to reinvent themselves.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books on women, mapping Manhattan, the Federal Reserve, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard's Walter Johnson on the slave South
The capitalist economy and dark dreams of the slaveholding South
A South African refugee crisis
An alumna recounts a refugee crisis in South Africa.
Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude
On crafting a liberal-arts education by reading the classics and shaping one's life course
Helen Vendler's collaboration with Arion Press
The poetry critic, the publisher, and the art of bookmaking in a digital era
Arthur Rosenthal, longtime Harvard University Press Director, Has Died
His focus on publishing scholarly titles with broader, mass-market appeal helped put HUP back in the black.