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.
Harvard Headlines: Books by Melvin Konner, Steven Shapin, and Thomas Bisson
Three recent reviews of books by Harvard-affiliated scholars (two faculty members and one alumnus).
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.