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.

Being Undocumented in America

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s writing aims to challenge assumptions. 

by Nina Pasquini

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Harvard's Walter Johnson on the slave South

The capitalist economy and dark dreams of the slaveholding South

by Michael Bernath

A South African refugee crisis

An alumna recounts a refugee crisis in South Africa.

Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude

On crafting a liberal-arts education by reading the classics and shaping one's life course

by Nannerl O. Keohane

Helen Vendler's collaboration with Arion Press

The poetry critic, the publisher, and the art of bookmaking in a digital era

by Nathan Heller

Arthur Rosenthal, longtime Harvard University Press Director, Has Died

His focus on publishing scholarly titles with broader, mass-market appeal helped put HUP back in the black.

Thoughts on critical reading from Reuben Brower’s “The Fields of Light”

An excerpt from Reuben Brower’s The Fields of Light: An Experiment in Critical Reading

Ilona Bell's Yard of Allusions

Ilona Bell's Yard of Allusions