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.

Judge Orders NIH to Restore Grants

Ruling likely won’t affect most of Harvard’s research cuts. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Under the Bar

An Upstairs at the Pudding girlhood, and undergraduate impresario Peter Sellars at Adams House

Erbaluce’s Simple Elegance

Sensuous Italian fare in Boston

by Nell Porter-Brown

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

The Persistence of Place

Sociologist Robert J. Sampson documents enduring neighborhood differences in Chicago.

Actor Jonathan Epstein’s Sonnet Workshop: A Video

Watch the Shakespearean actor take the stage during one of his sonnet workshops.

Sonnets and the Stage

Actor Jonathan Epstein teaches “five-finger exercises for the soul.”

by Craig Lambert

The Chinese “Good Life”

Arthur Kleinman and colleagues explore the Chinese people's yearnings after a century of upheaval and disasters.

Gould Goods

Popular works by evolutionary biologist and baseball fan Stephen Jay Gould back in print

Wanderers from Sirius

Katrina Roberts’s poems suggest that life springs from stardust.

by Craig Lambert

Chapter & Verse

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words