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.
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
Recent books on FDR, bioluminescence, ecorithms, intuition pumps, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections
“A Theory of Justice: The Musical!” and Harvard’s Class of 1944
A Theory of Justice as musical comedy, and the class of ’44
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“No Joke: Making Jewish Humor” by Ruth Wisse reviewed by Daniel Klein
Does in-group humor displace political action?
by Daniel Klein
“The Lost Art of Finding Our Way” by John Edward Huth reviewed by Isabel Ruane
Navigating the smartphone world
by Isabel Ruane
Novelist André Aciman's Harvard Square explores expats' experiences
A café-goers' view of Cambridge, a generation ago
Ilona Bell cultivates a literary garden in the Berkshires
A Berkshire yard that recalls poetry, fiction, and drama
How to reinvigorate the humanities at Harvard is the subject of new reports
How to reinvigorate the humanities at Harvard is the subject of new faculty reports