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Arts & Culture
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Decoding David Lynch’s ‘familiar yet strange’ cinematic language
Film Archive pays tribute with 3 films that ‘need to be seen on the big screen’
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Better than the book?
Faculty recommend their favorite reads adapted for the silver screen … and maybe even improved in the process
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Art from all corners
Office for the Arts celebrates 50 years with storytelling, music, dance, poetry, and more
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‘A voice that must be heard’
Grammy winner, Mexican classical composer Gabriela Ortiz on taking inspiration from folk music, ‘Glitter Revolution’ protests
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Choice is a good thing. Right?
Historian explores how having options became synonymous with freedom — and why it doesn’t always feel that way
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Welcome to age of the will to ignorance
Political scientist, historian examines why so many embrace ‘magical thinking that crowds out common sense and expertise’ in new book
Part of the Excerpts series
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Greenblatt teases out a knowable Shakespeare
Some years ago, before Stephen Greenblatt made the move from Berkeley to Harvard, a screenwriter named Marc Norman came to see him. Norman wanted to write a screenplay about William Shakespeare and had come to interview Greenblatt about the playwrights life.