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 and City Leaders Celebrate ERC Opening

Phase A of the Allston project includes a hotel, residences, and a two-acre greenway.

by Laurel M. Shugart

The Mailer-Buckley Connection

The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 letters archived by Michael Lennon, according to The New Yorker...

Tall Tales

Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow— is publishing a second book—The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, which promises "a fascinating and informative look into the world of tall people"...

Straw and Sustainability

In “The Three Little Pigs,” the big, bad wolf huffs and puffs and easily blows down the first piglet’s straw house.

by Craig Lambert

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.

"Launched into Eternity"

Broadsides and hangings in old England...

"Anti-Dominant" Journal

A small home for good writing

by Paul Gleason