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.
The Artist Edward Gorey—and Pets—at Harvard
Winter exhibits at Houghton Library
Profile of Janny Scott, author of "A Singular Woman"
Janny Scott '77 introduces Barack Obama's mother to a wider audience.
Carl Schoonover and "Portraits of the Mind" merge science and aesthetics
Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics.
by Sarah Zhang
E.O. Wilson is coauthor of two new ant books
In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman's "Debtor Nation"
Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman's Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink.
Stephen Greenblatt traces how Lucretius in "De Rerum Natura" shaped the present
Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.
In the "Tragedy of Arthur," Arthur Phillips riffs on a forged Shakespeare play
A con man, his son, and a fiction on two levels
by Amelia Atlas
The 2011 Phi Beta Kappa ceremony, featuring Henri Cole and Joyce Carol Oates
Orator Joyce Carol Oates and poet Henri Cole at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
Joyce Carol Oates to speak, Henri Cole to read at 2011 Phi Beta Kappa ceremony
The author will speak, and the poet will read, on May 24.
More on Adam Goodheart's new book "1861: The Civil War Awakening"
Adam Goodheart's new book explores the Civil War.