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.

Black and white photo of a large mushroom cloud rising above the horizon.

Open Book: A New Nuclear Age

Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy’s latest book looks at the rising danger of a new arms race.

Parkman circa 1890. His vocation and avocation, history and horticulture, both sprang from his passion for nature and “the American forest.”

Brief life of America’s epic historian Francis Parkman, by Castle Freeman

Brief life of America’s epic historian: 1823-1893

In the e-book version of <i>Macbeth,</i> the witches&rsquo; dark mischief unfolds beside the text.

Shakespeare e-books link text with new performances

New e-books bring Shakespeare to life.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Artist Matt Freedman’s “cancer treatment journal” about adenoid cystic carcinoma

Artist Matt Freedman ’78 confronts adenoid cystic carcinoma.

China&mdash;both a Communist Party state and a consumer society (as in this holiday street scene in Guangzhou)&mdash;is also the setting for a billion-plus citizens&rsquo; pursuit of their own dreams.

Evan Osnos on contemporary China, Age of Ambition, reviewed by Edward Steinfeld

The Chinese people’s individual acts of self-transformation

Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, today, with its Roman Catholic churches

Jean's McGarry's dark fiction about a regional subculture of Rhode Island

Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”

by Craig Lambert

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Designs for Paul Rudolph&rsquo;s iconic, controversial Yale Art &amp; Architecture build&shy;ing, 1959-1961

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Located in Harvard Square, the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center hosts shelves of traditional Tibetan volumes, which the organization scans, catalogues, and returns to their owners.

Harvard library stores Tibetan digital archive

Ten million pages of Tibetan literature will be stored in the library’s Digital Repository Services.

by Francesca Annic...

Discussing women writers were (from left) novelist Gish Jen, editor Elisabeth Schmitz, editor Ann Hulbert, and novelist Claire Messud.

Radcliffe Institute panel discusses the place of women writers

Radcliffe Institute panel discusses the place of women writers.

Journalist Johanna Berkman, left, looks on as Jamaica Kincaid makes a point.

Jamaica Kincaid and Margaret Atwood bookend Harvard's first literary festival

Jamaica Kincaid and Margaret Atwood bookend a three-day exploration of literary life.