Arts & Culture

Former Pulitzer-winning Post dance critic explains how to level up writing in new book

Schlesinger Library’s scrapbook collection offers scholars insights into hidden stories, texture of everyday life in bygone eras

Two of nation’s most storied collegiate choirs join to share, perform in Nashville

25 years after landmark photography book, Deborah Willis is still scouring albums, attics, cabinets, cards to fill in the record

Why Catherine Lacey can’t avoid ‘terrifying’ disclosures on the page and every story feels like her last

Megan Kate Nelson’s new book challenges myths of American frontier, finds more diverse, complex saga

Jayne Anne Phillips recalls childhood visits to beauty shop in rural West Virginia hometown in new memoir

Art Museums workshop explores 1st synthesized pigment, examines its legacy

As tech turns 50, preservationists race to save material stored on vanishing format. Methods include … baking?

‘We need beauty, wit, and attention to small things even more when we have to face large, painful things,’ essayist says about new book

‘Korean Stars’ course inspires Yenching’s 17-box collection of merch spanning ’90s to today

Radcliffe explores social histories of recipes through its vast collection of community cookbooks

Julia Minson’s new book says starting point involves signaling goodwill, respect, highlighting shared interests

New Harvard Art Museums exhibition aims to upend expectations as it explores history, complexity of group of diverse peoples

Why Mary Shelley’s 19th-century monster haunts us still

‘This is the thing I love,’ says one Harvard laureate. She’s not alone.

Janet Rich-Edwards on the Radcliffe moment that helped turn an epidemiologist into a novelist

What, like it’s hard?

Alum with Academy Award to his credit details hills and valleys of Hollywood career

Reputation in science was key to his political power, historian says. On the other hand, ‘Frankenstein.’

Panel discusses evolving tradition in U.S. due to social, economic shifts, and need for such thinkers in democratic cultures

For some, ease of streaming can’t beat thrill of watching films on the big screen

Faculty, staff offer recommendations for side trips off the beaten path

Professor’s book is an appreciation of Nobel-winning novelist’s ‘difficult’ oeuvre — and a defense

Education scholars say rigor, learning same as paper, stigma an unnecessary hurdle

Senior composes musical about abolitionist’s early life

After rare condition robbed drummer of ability to play music, science led him back

Curator launches series steeped in U.S. history

Comedian keeps Harvard crowd laughing with longtime co-writer Robert Carlock ’95

Music scholar charts ‘remarkable’ rise that transcended language barriers and cultural stigma