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

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Blindspot: A Novel

History professor Jill Lepore is the coauthor, with Jane Kamensky, of the historical novel Blindspot, set in colonial Boston.

by Jonathan Shaw

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

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"...

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

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words