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.
Is the Constitution Broken?
Harvard legal scholars debate the state of our founding national document.
Pleasure by Proxy: How Other People’s Experiences Help Predict Happiness
Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.
Indie film producer Mynette Louie interviewed
Film producer Mynette Louie ’97 on films, audiences, and the quest to connect them.
A new book collects theater photographs by Angus McBean
Fredric Wilson’s book The Theatrical World of Angus McBean collects British midcentury theater images.
Carl Sprague designs film and theater sets
Carl Sprague ’84 designs sets for local theater companies and Hollywood movies.
Review of Maurice Charney's “Wrinkled Deep in Time”
Adam Kirsch review Maurice Charney’s Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare.
by Adam Kirsch
An excerpt from "Tocqueville's Discovery of America," by Leo Damrosch
An excerpt from Tocqueville's Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
American composer Johnny Green
Brief life of a conflicted musician: 1908-1989
by Sol Hurwitz
Nineteenth-century dancing lessons
A professor's passion reveals how one learned to dance in Jane Austen's day.