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.
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.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Poetic Patriarch
Craig Lambert profiles the poet Richard Wilbur.
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"...
A Tale of Two Detectives
Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre.
by Paul Gleason
Seriously Funny
Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...
Self-Definition
Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths.