Arts & Culture

Harvard grad, comedy writer Michael Schur discusses his new book, “How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question.”

Author’s acclaimed works include “Fun Home,” “Are You My Mother?,” “The Secret to Superhuman Strength.”

After pandemic pause in 2021, Harvard troupe celebrates Man of the Year Jason Bateman and Woman of the Year Jennifer Garner.

David Damrosch, chair of the Comparative Literature Department, revised pandemic-era essays into “Around the World in 80 Books.”

Weike Wang tails Harvard-educated ICU doc through surprise visit after her dad’s death in witty look at family, culture, and COVID

Denounced as obscene, Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ exploded old ways of thinking about fiction — and the world itself.

Professor’s research while developing Latin course turns up surprising insights into political, gender, racial, religious identity.

Language expert Steven Pinker explores how the brain tries to make sense of those pesky missing tiles in the popular word puzzle.

Artists digitally remix the everyday sights and sounds of Allston-Brighton in “Frequencies,” showing nightly at Harvard’s Ed Portal through February.

Filmmaker Joel Coen brings a trimmed-down, sparse theatrical version of the Shakespeare play to the screen, says Jeffrey Wilson.

Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman star in the return of the Hasty Pudding’s Man and Woman of the Year awards.

James Joyce will be star of final act of Benjamin Wenzelberg’s undergrad career.

Production archive materials donated by the Apple+ TV series “Dickinson” arrived at Harvard’s Houghton Library.

In excerpt from his new book, Matthew Aucoin details why he chose Whitman as main character in his debut opera “Crossing” at American Repertory Theater.

Sebastián Lelio, director of “A Fantastic Woman,” talks about the film, which tells the story of a transgender woman in Santiago, Chile, and its role in the passage of a landmark Chilean gender-identity law.

Harvard grad John Weidman collaborated with theater giant on “Pacific Overtures,” “Assassins,” and “Road Show.”

Studios reopen for in-person classes in Soca Fusion, Latinx Movement, and more.

Ahead of Harvard football’s annual showdown with Yale, two art historians got into the competitive spirit.

On Friday, Krzysztof Wodiczko discussed the creative impulse behind his work during a pair of talks sponsored by the Graduate School of Design.

A typewriter belonging to John Ashbery now has a home in the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, the late poet’s alma mater.

Eight years in the making, the opera “Iphigenia” makes its worldwide debut in Boston.

Answering Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero with a Thousand Faces,’ Maria Tatar reveals multitudes in her new book.

Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, spoke with the Gazette about her role as chair of the panel that crowned “The Promise” by Damon Galgut this year’s winner.

Whitney White plans musical programs, each on a different Shakespeare play, all asking: What is price of ambition for women?

Folklore & Mythology course examines how tales of spirits and ghosts from the past affect the present and the future.

Rachel Kushner discussed the connection, and differences, between writing fiction and essays at an online Writers Speak event.

Tara K. Menon discusses her research and writing and how the author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel influenced her work.

Tap dancer Ayodele Casel explores communication, improvisation, culture, and history in “Chasing the Magic” at the American Repertory Theater.

Artist Tomashi Jackson’s latest work, “Brown II,” on view at Radcliffe, is inspired by the work of Civil Rights pioneers Pauli Murray and Ruth Batson, who helped drive public school desegregation efforts

Professor Ellen Winner looks at what may be happening in the minds of viewers who are taking in Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrapped Arc de Triomphe.