Arts & Culture

Stephen Goldsmith, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Daniel Paul Professor of Government, has written an uplifting book that details the methods public officials, social entrepreneurs, and individuals can use to improve communities and inventively solve public and social problems.

History professor Michael Szonyi recounts a career that began when he accepted a job at 17 working in Asia.

Stephen Burt, an English professor and renowned poet and critic, and co-writer David Mikics have collected 100 sonnets — the longest-lived poetic form — and offer their insights on each 14-line masterpiece.

Richard Tedlow, the M.B.A. Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration, says denial is everywhere — even in business. He examines why leaders let denial threaten companies, and provides case studies of organizations that have met challenges head-on.

In place since 1967, Appleton Chapel’s Opus 46 organ will be dismantled to make way for a new instrument.

Artist, writer, and scholar Catherine Lord ’71 receives annual Harvard Arts Medal.

A two-day conference explores the global reach of hip-hop and examines how teachers can use it in the classroom to convey important lessons about art, culture, language, and society.

Allan Sekula, artist and essayist, discusses the nature of reality and how it’s shown in his work.

For two lecturers, the achievements of American radicals have been too long ignored. They argue that a reappraisal is due.

A diverse Harvard panel marks the 1910 death of William James, celebrates his life, and revisits his famous question.

Daniel Carpenter’s new book, “Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA,” probes the workings of a crucial federal safety agency that often is either lionized or demonized.

A Wampanoag home, called a wetu, is built on the site of Harvard’s Indian College.

The Murty family’s endowed series will bring the classical literature of India, much of which remains locked in its original language, to a global audience.

In a new book, Harvard professor Robin Bernstein says that the concept of childhood innocence only dates to the 19th century, and was only applied to whites.

Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Robert G. Eccles and his co-writer explain how business’s use of integrated and transparent reporting of financial and nonfinancial results adds value to companies, their shareholders, and the overall sustainability of society.

Felice Frankel, a research associate in systems biology at Harvard Medical School, and her co-author help to explain nanoscale technology with a book of thorough explanations and colorful, illustrative photographs.

From the emergence of the beauty industry in the 19th century, Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, traces such beauty bastions as Coty, Estée Lauder, and Avon, and how they made beauty a full-time fascination and business.

Acclaimed children’s writer and illustrator Eric Carle discusses his craft at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Bill Gates speaks about the how the humanities impact global issues.

Poet Jericho Brown writes often about death, looking it in the eye, but don’t make the mistake of thinking him an unhappy man.

“Shelley,” a movie by Andrew Wesman ’10, is one of 13 selected from among 1,600 film school offerings that will screen at the famed Cannes Film Festival.

A Radcliffe conference tackles the tangle of how men and women handle matters of personal and public space.

A new exhibit at Gund Hall shows how rocks are used to shape landscape design and to create art.

In his latest book, professor emeritus Jerome Kagan examines the temperaments of babies and how they can be predictors of adult behaviors.

The American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston combine efforts to celebrate the joys of performance.

John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School team up in this all-star collaboration on cyberspace. Whether the subjects are online censorship or surveillance, the wild frontier of the Web gets tamed in this tome.

Siobhan Phillips, a junior fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows, revisits those well-known poetic masters — Stevens, Frost, Bishop, and Merrill — and analyzes how they transformed quotidian rituals into lyrical fodder.

Government and happiness? Not so strange bedfellows, says Derek Bok, former president of Harvard and professor at Harvard Law School, who investigates how happiness research could affect policy.

The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.

Radcliffe Fellow Robin Fleming peers into the history of early medieval Britain through the lens of material culture.