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.

Harvard, Government Present Arguments in Funding Case

Judge questions relationship between antisemitism charges and grant cancellations.

by Tamara Evdokimova

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...