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.

Matt Levine's Bloomberg Finance Column Makes Money Funny

Matt Levine’s spunky Bloomberg column

by Max J. Krupnick

Author Toni Morrison gives 2012 Harvard Divinity School Ingersoll Lecture

The author discusses altruism and the literary imagination in the 2012 Ingersoll Lecture.

Alex Dumas, inspiration for "The Count of Monte Cristo," by Tom Reiss

Brief life of the soldier who inspired The Count of Monte Cristo: 1762-1806

by Tom Reiss

Evan Thomas's biography of President Eisenhower

In Evan Thomas's new biography, President Eisenhower emerges as a canny nuclear strategist.

Recent books by John Updike, George Vaillant, Marjorie Garber, and others

Recent books by John Updike, Marjorie Garber, George Vaillant, Thomas McGraw, and others with Harvard connections

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Ellen Faran and Gita Manaktala of MIT Press

Ellen Faran ’73 and Gita Manaktala ’87 advance knowledge through publishing.

by Katherine Xue

Harvard professor and poet Jorie Graham wins Forward Poetry Prize

The poet's book Places won the 2012 Forward prize for a poetry collection.

Harvard’s long-closed Social Museum promoted progressive values

Harvard’s long-closed Social Museum promoted progressive values.

by Christopher Reed

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, on skewed political power

Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.

by Andrea Louise C...