Humanities & Arts
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2025-2026 Fellows
Scholars pursue projects ranging from reducing ethnic violence to searching for an undiscovered super-Earth.
by Olivia Farrar
Harvard Credit for High-Schoolers
Literature professor Elisa New spearheads an online poetry course for talented students in underserved high schools.
by Lydialyle Gibson
History from Below
Vincent Brown writes war, empire, and slaves’ agency into the history of Atlantic slavery.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
"The Love of a Ghost for a Ghost"
A bombshell letter from modernist poet T.S. Eliot, 50 years after his death
by Lydialyle Gibson
Shawon Kinew
Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
What Ails Modern Liberalism?
Eric Nelson says John Rawls led modern philosophy astray.
by John A. Griffin
A World of Literature
David Damrosch’s literary global reach
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
“Find My Real Husband”
A medical anthropologist cares for his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife.
From the Archives: The Market-Model University
Humanities in the age of money
Picasso Reinterpreted
A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”
The Work of Art
At a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice.
by Lydialyle Gibson