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.
Keri Russell Calls ‘The Diplomat’ a Love Letter to Public Servants
A Harvard Kennedy School event looks behind the scenes of the Netflix drama.
Faust Book a Contender for National Book Award
This Republic of Suffering is among the finalists in the nonfiction category...
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.
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
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