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.

The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard

How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”

by Lindsay Mitchell

Monuments Men map

See the routes four Harvard-affiliated Monuments Men followed as they traveled through Europe rescuing looted art from the Nazis.

Reviews of "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande

The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.

Quotation Q and A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

David Warsh reviews "This Time Is Different" by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff

David Warsh reviews This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff.

by David Warsh

Nanoscience in photographs

In words and images, George M. Whitesides and Felice. C. Frankel explicate tools, concepts, and applications in nanoscience.

Books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

War and peace in Memorial Hall's stained glass

A stained-glass window in Harvard's Memorial Hall

by Christopher Reed

The Monuments Men: Rescuing art from the Nazis

Harvard’s Monuments Men at war

Rare-book dealers Jon and Margaret Richardson specialize in the Bloomsbury Group

Rare-book dealers Jon and Margaret Richardson are fans of the Bloomsbury Group.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Sportscaster J.B. Brown writes about his "Role of a Lifetime"

Sportscaster J.B. Brown writes about his "Role of a Lifetime"

by Melanie E. Long