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

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

"Days With the Family Realist"

A poem for the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises

Slaying Dragons

A crime novelist explores the deepest cracks in the human heart.

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Tall Book, by Arianne Cohen, describes the lives of tall people.

Arianne Cohen ’03 celebrates “life from on high” in a new book that discusses tall people's perspectives and prospects.

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

The Bible and the Almanac

How Pete Seeger got his start: an excerpt from Alec Wilkinson's new biography, The Protest Singer

Music, Taken Personally

A music critic reviews composer John Adams’s memoir.

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Vistas of Perfection

A profile of writer James Agee, at Harvard and beyond

by Adam Kirsch

Chasing Bogeys

A novel book on golf