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.
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
by Nina Pasquini
The Fiction of Limbo
Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.
by Bailey Trela
Chapter & Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.
Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse
Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
by Bennett McIntosh
A Mind of One’s Own
Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
by Nell Porter-Brown
Karl May
Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912
by Eugene Stelzig
Deep Roots
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.
by Olivia Schwob
Personal History
An addiction to reading
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words