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.

These Harvard Mountaineers Braved Denali’s Wall of Ice

John Graham’s Denali Diary documents a dangerous and historic climb.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Ilona Bell cultivates a literary garden in the Berkshires

A Berkshire yard that recalls poetry, fiction, and drama

by Craig Lambert

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

August Kleinzahler poet, Linda Greenhouse orator, at 2013 Harvard Phi Beta Kappa

August Kleinzahler and Linda Greenhouse to speak at Commencement-week PBK Literary Exercises

Harvard alumnus Tom Reiss ’86 wins Pulitzer for Biography

Bailyn, Kayyem, Wen named finalists.

Martin Puchner, author and professor of drama and of English

The English professor has already written three books and edited the 6,000-page third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature.

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Recent books by E.O. Wilson, Ezekiel Emanuel, Elliott Abrams, and more

Recent books with Harvard connections

History of napalm origins at Harvard

A new book traces napalm's invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah