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Arts & Culture
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‘Everybody feels like two people’
Alum who co-produces ‘Severance’ says show speaks to real-life mysteries
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Patricia Lockwood wants you to admit the internet is real life
In Harvard talk, author riffs on ‘cloistered’ upbringing, crafting characters through dialogue, working in bed vs. on couch
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For 100 years, a top stop for the world’s medievalists
800 academics convened in Harvard Yard for workshops, presentations, and discussion
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We used to read more, scream less
How has the internet changed fiction? 8 writers weigh in.
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Uncovering the palette of the past
Project maps pigments used in South Asian art
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An architect-detective’s medieval mystery
Exhibit traces scholar’s quest to reconstruct abbey destroyed after French Revolution
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Polaroid gave her a shot. She helped revolutionize photography.
Meroë Morse — focus of Baker Library exhibition — led company’s researchers during innovative era
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The very model of a modern major initiative
A.R.T. and Lavine Learning Lab aim to create a space for intergenerational dialogue, deepen student engagement with theater
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12 centuries of Ukrainian literature in 12 weeks?
Bohdan Tokarskyi, new assistant professor, says he’s up to the challenge
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‘Art and Identity’ in a changing Germany
Filmmaker’s documentaries bring complex history to Busch-Reisinger
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So, here’s the thing about women comedians that isn’t funny
Veteran stand-up headliner Iliza Shlesinger details self-censorship, social media, and double standards in Mahindra talk
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Making art as process of reclamation
Singer Davóne Tines ’09 and violinist Jennifer Koh discuss ‘Everything Rises,’ their work about race, complex ties to white world of classical music
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A three-way player: Offense, defense, and design
Economics concentrator, Crimson guard also sells custom sneakers to college, pro athletes
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The problem with knowing everything
‘Rigor of Angels’ author explains how a Borges character with perfect memory illuminates work of Heisenberg, Kant
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Preserving Indigenous languages is personal
Ava Silva ’27 working with WOLF Lab to document, study, and preserve the Alabama language of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe
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Bot’s literary analysis wasn’t ‘brilliantly original’ — is that beside the point?
Writers Claire Messud, Laura Kipnis debate AI’s merits as a reading companion
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‘Dark things can be quite illuminating’
Horror writing instructor defends prestige of ‘genre that bites back’
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Putting a face on the importance of voting
‘Vote!’ exhibition honors those who fought for civil rights
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Art in motion
Stroboscopic technique uses darkness to shine light on the science of movement
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Scarier than ghosts: A nurse superfan and a spouse with secret rooms
Steven Pinker, Maria Tatar, other scholars recommend books for Halloween season
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So who knew Goliath threw the fight for cash?
Comedy writer Simon Rich talks about turning life into funny fiction, offers tips for young writers
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Does academic writing have to be boring?
English professor, journalist says first step to better prose is being aware that no one has to read you
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When to quit a book
Some give up without guilt while others insist going cover to cover. Harvard readers share their criteria.
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Lace up gloves, enter ring, and write
Novelist and boxer Laura van den Berg says the two practices have a lot in common
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Unearthed papyrus contains lost scenes from Euripides’ plays
Alums help identify, decipher ‘one of the most significant new finds in Greek literature in this century’
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A photographer who makes historical subjects dance
Wendel White manifests the impetus behind his new monograph during Harvard talk
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LeVar Burton got his Du Bois Medal, and the crowd couldn’t resist
‘Reading Rainbow’ theme breaks out at ceremony honoring Black luminaries — including trailblazers in sports, arts, politics, and more
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When the act of writing itself is part of the art
Calligrapher Wang Dongling creates piece with ‘chaotic script’ before Harvard Art Museums audience
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Making creation a career
Alumni in the arts share insights and lifelong impact of campus involvement
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Art and Big Ideas are not strange bedfellows
Both spring from hard questions, benefit from interdisciplinary feedback, former Radcliffe fellows say
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Was Romeo ‘love-bombing’ Juliet?
Globe relationship columnist sorts timeless elements of youth, love, social divisions of 16th-century classic in new A.R.T. production
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‘Unseen Truth’ shows the real picture behind ‘Caucasian’ ideals
Sarah Lewis explores the false foundation of America’s racial hierarchy in new book
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A history of Shakespeare at the A.R.T.
‘Romeo and Juliet’ is latest in long line of productions stretching back to theater’s inaugural staging in 1980 of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
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Manifesting Black history in 3D
From Frederick Douglass’ hair to Malcolm X’s tape recorder, Wendel White’s new book puts an abundance of artifacts on display
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In Harry Smith exhibit, Carpenter Center captures a life that defies categorization
Artist’s eclectic, connected body of work explores his wide interests — and influence
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This is how you dated before there were apps
Writer Simon Rich sketches life in satiric, post-climate-change dystopia through a great-grandfather’s reminiscences
