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.
Your Views on Harvard’s Standoff, Antisemitism, and More
Readers comment on the controversial July-August cover, authoritarianism, and scientific research.
Boston in Motion
An exhibition maps the making of a metropolis.
Paul Dudley White documentary possibility
A possible film about cardiologist Paul Dudley White
A Sweeping Exhibit Covers 250 Years of Japanese Art
Paintings from the Edo period convey “a powerful sense of there-ness.”
Photo Recap: The 70th Annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year
Elizabeth Banks and Ben Platt received this year’s honors.
Excerpt from Adam Cohen, “Supreme Inequality”
A thumb on the scales
Profile of novelist Yangsze Choo
Malaysian-born Yangsze Choo writes novels infused with the tropical mysteries of her childhood.
Rare books at risk
Consequences of book-breaking
Karl May, best-selling German novelist
Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu, profiled
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.
Excerpt from Bernard Bailyn, “Illuminating History”
An addiction to reading