Humanities & Arts
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced
Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
by Olivia Farrar
Letters Between Friends
An antebellum correspondence between two Harvard undergraduates
by Beth Luey
Miniature Worlds
How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life
by Nina Pasquini
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
Ben Franklin’s Project
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
by Joyce E. Chaplin
In the Crosshairs
Unprecedented federal actions against research funding, diversity, speech, and more
by John S. Rosenberg
Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
by Lydialyle Gibson
Remembering Earl Kim
A documentary revisits the composer and Harvard professor’s music.
by Nina Pasquini
The Office for the Arts Turns 50
A birthday party with song, dance, and speech
by Max J. Krupnick
Five Questions with Professor Peter Der Manuelian
Harvard professor of Egyptology on unsolved mysteries, cats, and the beauty of ancient craftsmanship
by Olivia Farrar
Scientific Stardom
How Galileo’s geometric and military compass helped him calculate his own ascent
by Nina Pasquini