Humanities & Arts


Artificial Intelligence in the Academy

Harvard symposium assesses the new technology.

by Jonathan Shaw

A Dogged Observer

Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.

by Max J. Krupnick

Making Space

The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture

by Nina Pasquini

Fictions about the Forces Driving Migration

Glenda Carpio on the new migration narrative

by Nina Pasquini

Opera Reimagined

Students and professionals collaborate on The Unknowable, an opera-ballet set to premiere at Sanders Theatre this weekend. 

by Nina Pasquini

Historical Record v. Trump

Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief 

by Max J. Krupnick

Break Every Chain

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice

by Max J. Krupnick

The Philosopher of the Real World

Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Tom Hyry

What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism

by Max J. Krupnick

Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence

Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.

How Revolutions Happen

Robert Darnton on the origins of the French Revolutionary temperament