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

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman's "Debtor Nation"

Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman's Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink.

by Nancy F. Koehn

Stephen Greenblatt traces how Lucretius in "De Rerum Natura" shaped the present

Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.

by Christian Flow

In the "Tragedy of Arthur," Arthur Phillips riffs on a forged Shakespeare play

A con man, his son, and a fiction on two levels

by Amelia Atlas

The 2011 Phi Beta Kappa ceremony, featuring Henri Cole and Joyce Carol Oates

Orator Joyce Carol Oates and poet Henri Cole at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises

Joyce Carol Oates to speak, Henri Cole to read at 2011 Phi Beta Kappa ceremony

The author will speak, and the poet will read, on May 24.

More on Adam Goodheart's new book "1861: The Civil War Awakening"

Adam Goodheart's new book explores the Civil War.

Elise Paschen's career in poetry.

The Chicago poet has spread the good wordings via book, CD—and subway.

by Craig Lambert

HMS alumnus Siddhartha Mukherjee wins Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction

Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. '00, is honored for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.

Profile of Chicano writer Manuel Muñoz

Chicano writer Manuel Muñoz ’94 mines the “humanizing effect of literature.”

by Nell Porter-Brown