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.

The Artist Edward Gorey—and Pets—at Harvard

Winter exhibits at Houghton Library   

by Nell Porter-Brown

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Recent books on evolution, island Ireland, Jonathan Swift, and more

Recent books with Harvard connections

Claudia Bedrick of Enchanted Lion Books for children

Claudia Bedrick ’85 of Enchanted Lion Books offers an international array of stories to young children.

by Kristen Strezo

Virgil Encyclopedia in English

Two Harvard classics professors create the first Virgil Encyclopedia in English.

by Erin O’Donnell

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Adam Kirsch reviews Lawrence Buell on the Great American Novel

A literary critic on the Great American Novel

by Adam Kirsch

The Atlantic’s Scott Stossel on anxiety

Scott Stossel ’91 probes anxiety in a personal, revealing, and funny book about a serious subject.

Alterrnative Medicine, poetry book by physician Rafael Campo

Rafael Campo, M.D., straddles medicine and metonymy.

by Stephen Burt

Recent books on reading, Bernard Berenson, neutrino hunters, and more

Recent books with Harvard connections

Brief life of novelist Ann Petry, by Farah Jasmine Griffin

Brief life of a celebrity-averse novelist: 1908-1997

by Farah Jasmine G...