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 Divinity School Sets New Priorities

After two years of turmoil, Dean Marla Frederick describes a more pluralistic future for the institution’s culture and curriculum.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Felonious Mayhem

Enron and other capitalist calamities

"A Liar's Biography"

An art forger's success has less to do with his prowess as a visual artist than with his use and misuse of history.

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

A Tale of Two Detectives

Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre.

by Paul Gleason

Seriously Funny

Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...

by Craig Lambert

Works and Woods

Architecture and ecology in Japan...

by Paul Gleason

Young Audubon

Jean-Jacques Audubon did not become the internationally celebrated John James Audubon of The Birds of America overnight...

Self-Definition

Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths.

An Intimate Look at Zuckerberg and Other High-Tech Figures

Hafner writes that Lacy's "explanation of how venture capital works is instructive and clear, perhaps one of the best yet written for a general readership."