Humanities
Explore the intellectual and creative pursuits within philosophy, history, literature, and the fine arts at Harvard.
The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Quincy Jones and Harvard
Remembering a great musician’s Crimson ties
A Potter’s Practice
Harvard ceramics program artist-in-residence Ashton Keen
Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis at the Lahore Biennale
At the Lahore Biennale, artists respond to the climate crisis.
Stevengraphs: Woven Silk Portraits from Coventry to Harvard
Five strange trading “cards”
Harvard’s Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Then and Now
Students adapt the operettas to changing times.
Edwin Frank Explores the 20th-Century Novel in 'Stranger Than Fiction'
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.
Liv Redpath on “What You Can Say” Through Opera
Liv Redpath’s operatic trajectory
Ecological Edges: Darren Sears’s Watercolor Landscapes
The surreal, artistic cartography of Darren Sears
25 Years of the Radcliffe Institute
A “messy experiment” in creative, interdisciplinary research
How Do Movies Use Music?
Producer Robert Kraft discusses cinematic audio.