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   

by Nell Porter-Brown

New Yorker writer John McPhee's listener, Gordon Gund '61

A Paris Review article describes how renowned author John McPhee reads his drafts to his friend Gordon Gund ’61.

Articles on the urban plantscape; a prestigious math award; Commencement humor

Our news roundup includes articles on landscape architecture professor Peter del Tredici and mathematics professor John Tate, and Commencement humor from The Onion.

Panic in the Year Zero: A Poem by D.A. Powell

A poem by D.A. Powell, from the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises. [audio]

2010 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises with Natalie Zemon Davis and D.A. Powell

Historian Natalie Zemon Davis speaks on "The Possibilities of Friendship." Also featuring poet D.A. Powell with a vivid new work. [video/audio]

David Warsh reviews Robert J. Samuelson's The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath

David Warsh reviews Robert J. Samuelson's The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath

by David Warsh

The Green-Pea Memo

Poking fun “at the academic-bureaucratic mentality of university life”

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Quotation Q & A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Gutenberg 2.0: What future for libraries?

Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.

by Jonathan Shaw

Skyscrapers as symbols

In Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper, Scott Johnson explores the semiotics of these urban giants.

by Jonathan Shaw