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.

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...

Recent books by John Palfrey, E.O. Wilson, George Church, and others

Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections

A novel, "Sound," by Thomas P. Wolf, notated like a musical score

A novel, Sound, notated like a musical score

by Craig Lambert

Excerpt from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot’s book "Exit:The Endings That Set Us Free”

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on life's liberating exits

Philosopher and scientist Robert O. Doyle has a new model of free will

Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.

by Craig Lambert

Palindromist Mark Saltveit, Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner, and a sleuthing architect

A World Palindrome Champion, a sleuthing architect, and Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words