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.
Grow, Make, Eat, and Imbibe
Alumni promote the local origins of edible goods
by Nell Porter-Brown
A Poet’s March of Ages
Two Harvard classics professors create the first Virgil Encyclopedia in English.
by Erin O’Donnell
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Made in the U.S.A.
A literary critic on the Great American Novel
by Adam Kirsch
The Lit City
Sunlight and shadow star in Derek Reist’s urban landscapes.
by Steve Potter
Annals of Anxiety
Scott Stossel ’91 probes anxiety in a personal, revealing, and funny book about a serious subject.
Sestinas from the Clinic
Rafael Campo, M.D., straddles medicine and metonymy.
by Stephen Burt
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Sorcery of Seedpods
Little packages of DNA that explode with beauty
by Craig Lambert
Vita: Ann Petry
Brief life of a celebrity-averse novelist: 1908-1997
by Farah Jasmine G...