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 Kennedy School Offers Contingency Plans for U.S. Military Applicants
Active-duty service members can defer admissions or have their applications considered at peer institutions.
Architecture that imitates life
Architects are beginning to employ biomimicry, studying nature as a model for building design.
by John Gendall
An excerpt from "Jacob’s Cane"
Socialism as family inconvenience
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
New York Film Festival program director Richard Peña
Richard Peña ’75 is program director of the New York Film Festival.
Books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Review of "Half the Sky," on the oppression of women
A review of Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
by Rohini Pande
Biographical sketch of French artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
A brief profile of an enterprising French artist
Amelia Lester named New Yorker managing editor
Amelia Lester ’05 is a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine.
The Boston Globe reviews "The Windmill Movie"
The Boston Globe reviews The Windmill Movie, a film about Richard Rogers ’67, edited and directed by his former filmmaking student, Alexander Olch ’99.
The Last of His Kind: A new biography of mountaineer and photographer H. Bradfor
The life of mountaineer, pioneering aerial photographer, and Museum of Science leader H. Bradford Washburn, newly chronicled by fellow mountaineer David Roberts ’65.