Arts & Culture

‘Rigor of Angels’ author explains how a Borges character with perfect memory illuminates work of Heisenberg, Kant

Ava Silva ’27 working with WOLF Lab to document, study, and preserve the Alabama language of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe

Writers Claire Messud, Laura Kipnis debate AI’s merits as a reading companion

Horror writing instructor defends prestige of ‘genre that bites back’

‘Vote!’ exhibition honors those who fought for civil rights

Stroboscopic technique uses darkness to shine light on the science of movement

Steven Pinker, Maria Tatar, other scholars recommend books for Halloween season

Comedy writer Simon Rich talks about turning life into funny fiction, offers tips for young writers

English professor, journalist says first step to better prose is being aware that no one has to read you

Some give up without guilt while others insist going cover to cover. Harvard readers share their criteria.

Novelist and boxer Laura van den Berg says the two practices have a lot in common

Alums help identify, decipher ‘one of the most significant new finds in Greek literature in this century’

Wendel White manifests the impetus behind his new monograph during Harvard talk

‘Reading Rainbow’ theme breaks out at ceremony honoring Black luminaries — including trailblazers in sports, arts, politics, and more

Calligrapher Wang Dongling creates piece with ‘chaotic script’ before Harvard Art Museums audience

Alumni in the arts share insights and lifelong impact of campus involvement

Both spring from hard questions, benefit from interdisciplinary feedback, former Radcliffe fellows say

Globe relationship columnist sorts timeless elements of youth, love, social divisions of 16th-century classic in new A.R.T. production

Sarah Lewis explores the false foundation of America’s racial hierarchy in new book

‘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’

From Frederick Douglass’ hair to Malcolm X’s tape recorder, Wendel White’s new book puts an abundance of artifacts on display

Artist’s eclectic, connected body of work explores his wide interests — and influence

Writer Simon Rich sketches life in satiric, post-climate-change dystopia through a great-grandfather’s reminiscences

Woodberry Poetry Room embarks on online preservation project

In novel rooted in family lore, Claire Messud trails three generations of family with Algerian roots, lives shaped by displacement, war, social and political upheaval

Exhibit tracing multicultural exchanges over three centuries finds common threads and plenty of drama, from crown envy to tulip mania

Jamaica Kincaid’s new book presents history of colonialism, identity through plants that helped shape it

In Greece, students find intersection of academics and athletics

Graduate student aims to update large gaps in research on argot of Irish Travelers

Harvard Library staff recommendations cover romance, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, memoir, music, politics, history