Arts & Culture

Complexity is a common theme in GSD students’ option studios

Maria Tatar has spent her career tracing evolution of folk, fairy tales, explaining why they still matter

Jazz experts, scholars detail how iconic saxophonist, who would have turned 100 this year, reshaped most American musical genre

Berlin artist explores labor, pride, and unsung heroes of Germany’s ‘economic miracle’ in Harvard exhibit

Harvard faculty recommend books that capture youth in all its joy and agony

For photography scholar, albums are a poignant reminder of the details a picture leaves out

Instructor’s debut novel joins growing subgenre of books confronting pandemic’s surreal early days

2,500-year-old marble sculpture of young man hid face-down for centuries, broken and recycled as paving stones

Martha Ackmann tells Radcliffe audience the origin story of a songwriting legend

How former Harvard classmates binge-watched and buzzed their way to victory

A.R.T. kicks off season with ‘Rhinoceros,’ starring Paul Giamatti, Tatiana Maslany, and John Turturro

Celebrating nation’s natural wonders through art on 250th anniversary

Tayari Jones digs into themes of latest novel, ‘Kin’: ‘We all need chosen family.’

Award-winning novelist details path he followed to write ‘Country People’

Two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead discusses ‘Cool Machine,’ his new novel and final installment of trilogy

Writer lets secret slip in Radcliffe talk

Harvard librarians share their faves

Dad’s uniform might look boring, but the history behind it is not

‘Jeopardy!’ star Paolo Pasco ’22 on right (and wrong) answers

Faculty, staff recommend fiction with unreliable narrators — and try to explain why we can’t resist them 

Mysteries blend puzzle-solving with kind of catharsis, according to scholars, writers 

For Christian Wiman, ‘dead on the table’ more than once, suffering is no longer the only authentic thing

Who watches a 439-minute movie in an age of epic distraction? We asked.

New adaptation of dark, psychological thriller film premieres at American Repertory Theater

Photographer brings 11 key scenes from 20th century to life in Peabody exhibit

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