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.
Postmodern Medicine
We are all “medical citizens,” embedded as potential or actual patients, with physicians, in a system of social, moral, and...
Past the Peak
Nearly 50 years after declaring their independence, Americans were electrified by the triumphant return of the Marquis de Lafayette, eager to...
History Bronzed
Harvard people with medals they aren’t sure what to do with have often given them to the University. Many of these impressions of history...
Off the Shelf
How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now (Free Press, $35), by James L. Kugel, formerly Starr professor of Hebrew literature...
Moving Pictures, Hard Questions
It was a rare rainy night in Los Angeles. Filling up his tank at a local gas station, a man noticed the silhouette of another man, just beyond...
Profile of Broadway set designer Derek McLane
Set designer Derek McLane (Harvard ’80) has designed stages for "Grease," "Guys and Dolls," "The Pajama Game," and Pulitzer Prize-winning "I Am My Own Wife," and many other plays.
Chapter & Verse
Suzanne Ekman hopes someone can identify a source for the following line, possibly from a Mark Van Doren poem: “…but where were...
Gift Ideas from a Valentine's-Day Doubter
The book selections include titles from fiction, memoir, self-help/advice, cookbooks, travel guides, and poetry...
Sarah Wyman Whitman
Sarah Wyman Whitman was an original and compelling figure in late nineteenth century Boston. Very much a public personality, she was a painter...
"...In My Mind I Am Perplexed"
The Civil War transformed American society and institutions. It brought about the formal end of slavery (but not of racial discrimination). It...