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

Poetic Patriarch

Craig Lambert profiles the poet Richard Wilbur.

by Craig Lambert

Stinging the Dinosaurs

An excerpt from The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson

Carpenter Center's Craftsman

A new book, Le Corbusier Le Grand, pulls together the career of Le Corbusier, with material on Harvard’s Carpenter Center.

by John S. Rosenberg

Faust Book a Contender for National Book Award

This Republic of Suffering is among the finalists in the nonfiction category...

The Mailer-Buckley Connection

The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 letters archived by Michael Lennon, according to The New Yorker...

Tall Tales

Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow— is publishing a second book—The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, which promises "a fascinating and informative look into the world of tall people"...

"Anti-Dominant" Journal

A small home for good writing

by Paul Gleason

Felonious Mayhem

Enron and other capitalist calamities

"A Liar's Biography"

An art forger's success has less to do with his prowess as a visual artist than with his use and misuse of history.

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections