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
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Off the Shelf
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
A New Voice
Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Chinese in America
Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction
Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
by Lydialyle Gibson
Leslie Jamison’s Many Selves
The essayist on isolation, empathy, and selfhood
by Nina Pasquini
A Fictional Century
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Bringing the Magic
The reality-based fantasies of novelist Tomi Adeyemi
by Lydialyle Gibson
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park