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.”
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Blindspot: A Novel
History professor Jill Lepore is the coauthor, with Jane Kamensky, of the historical novel Blindspot, set in colonial Boston.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Poetic Patriarch
Craig Lambert profiles the poet Richard Wilbur.
The Force Was With Them
Kevin Rafferty has made a documentary film, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, about the 1968 football game.
The Children of Noah
A map showing “The Dispersal of the Children of Noah,” in an exhibit at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, reflects dispute by Puritan theologian Hugh Broughton...
Stinging the Dinosaurs
An excerpt from The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson
Alex Ross Wins MacArthur
Music critic Alex Ross ’90 has just been named a MacArthur Fellow for his encyclopedic first book...
Pulitzer Gift of Art Works and $45 Million Boosts Harvard Art Museum
Culminating her lifelong devotion to art collecting, connoisseurship, and scholarship—and a matching engagement with the University—Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M.
Faust Book a Contender for National Book Award
This Republic of Suffering is among the finalists in the nonfiction category...