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.”
Seriously Funny
Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...
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."
A Familiar Tale, Told With Style
Those in search of summer beach reading might pick up The Romantics, a new novel by Galt Niederhoffer ’97...
Thoroughly Eclectic
Performer Eisa Davis, now starring on Broadway in Passing Strange, stays open to her many artistic passions, including playwriting (Bulrusher, Angela's Mixtape) and singing (her devut album is Something Else)...
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections...
From Soaps to Solos
Operatic bass Ethan Herschenfeld sings around the world, but also enjoys acting on TV (Damages)...
Vintage Brevities
The Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library has recently become home to more than 10,000 map postcards...