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

Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, on skewed political power

Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.

by Andrea Louise C...

Recent books by John Palfrey, E.O. Wilson, George Church, and others

Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections

A novel, "Sound," by Thomas P. Wolf, notated like a musical score

A novel, Sound, notated like a musical score

by Craig Lambert

Excerpt from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot’s book "Exit:The Endings That Set Us Free”

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on life's liberating exits

Philosopher and scientist Robert O. Doyle has a new model of free will

Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.

by Craig Lambert

Palindromist Mark Saltveit, Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner, and a sleuthing architect

A World Palindrome Champion, a sleuthing architect, and Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

"Golden Holocaust," by Robert N. Proctor, advocates the abolition of cigarettes

Robert Proctor’s Golden Holocaust urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.

Harvard exhibits bicentennial Edward Lear animal art

A bicentennial exhibition features the little-known, masterful animal artistry of Edward Lear.

by Christopher Reed