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.

Open Book: A New Nuclear Age

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

Donald Revell and Andrea Barrett to speak at Harvard's PBK Literary Exercises

Donald Revell and Andrea Barrett to speak at PBK Literary Exercises

Havard alumna Megan Marshall ’77 wins Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Damrosch, O’Brien, and Adams named finalists.

Harvard’s Houghton Library celebrates William Makepeace Thackeray

Houghton Library celebrates William Makepeace Thackeray.

by Christopher Reed

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Sage Stossel's graphic novel, Starling, depicts an anti-superheroine.

“Starling” can handle thugs and palookas, but not daily life.

by Craig Lambert

The sabermetric revolution

Economist Andrew Zimbalist analyzes the sabermetric revolution

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Innovation in humanities courses aims to reach larger numbers of students

New gateways into the humanities for students “still fully molten as human beings”

by Jonathan Shaw

At Harvard, Dava Sobel discusses what convinced Copernicus to publish his work

At Harvard, Dava Sobel discusses the conversation that convinced Copernicus to publish his lifework.

A tribute to Justin Kaplan

In tribute to an old friend