Arts & Culture

Author and Harvard alum W. David Marx digs into how social aspirations underlie all our choices.

Far from her native Indianapolis, Alyssa Gaines steeps herself in life on Harvard’s campus.

Nick Barnes talks about animal puppets he co-designed for stage version of best-selling novel, now playing at Harvard’s A.R.T.

Experts took a virtual look at the role of satire in pushing climate change action, with reviews mixed on a recent film.

Creative process and Jewish tradition were central to a lively conversation as Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück delivered the Center for Jewish Studies’ annual Doft Lecture.

New classics professor Irene Soto Marín mines answers to question about ancient Egyptian life, economy from everyday artifacts.

A Pittsburgh artist who seeks to honor authors has transcribed Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Overstory” onto a scroll reminiscent of a redwood tree’s 160-foot cross section. It’s on display through January at the Arnold Arboretum.

On the 100th anniversary of discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb, an Egyptian jewel comes to Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

Hutchins Center for African and African American Research returned after three years to award the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal to seven luminaries.

Realistic mummy portraits, on view at Harvard Art Museums, shed light on life, death in multicultural Roman era 2,000 years ago

Namwali Serpell’s novel explores reality, memory, and race, class of broken family after the death of a child.

The new exhibition hopes to revolutionize how Cuban art is considered through the inclusion of artists of African descent who were usually excluded from shows.

Atlantic Connections, a jazz performance created by Alicia Hall Moran and Yosvany Terry, takes place on September 15 and 16.

Former Bioethics Fellow Jay Baruch ’02 recalls impatient patient who pulled her own breathing tube (and lived to tell about it) in new memoir

Former Bunting Fellow Anna Deavere Smith develops revival of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.”

Responses range from Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction to essays on race in America to memoirs of artists and restaurateurs.

Harvard scholar highlights qualities that make Jane Austen ever-modern.

Meghan O’Rourke’s new book examines the challenges face by those with chronic illnesses.

“Castor and Patience” explores nation’s long history of systematic barriers to Black ownership.

Harvard scholars share from experience stories and ideas of uncommon wisdom

An interview with Emily Ogden ’02 about her new book, “On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays.”

Keith Gessen ’98 talks about being a first-time parent and his new book, “Raising Raffi: The First Five Years.”

Some of Harvard’s best-known readers, writers weigh in.

Emma Eun-joo Choi ’23 is the host of the new NPR comedy podcast “Everyone & Their Mom.”

Author and alum Elif Batuman explains how changes, questions in her own life informed path of protagonist in new novel “Either/Or.”

Frame conservator Allison Jackson recreated a frame for the Harvard Art Museums by 19th-century artist Albert Moore.

The American Repertory Theater’s “1776” gives actors in this cross-gendered, racially diverse revival a way to mine complexities of race, slavery, and humanity.

The Harvard Undergraduate Salon for the Sciences and Humanities aims to revive the “age of conversation,” particularly about bridges between the two topics.

Annie Julia Wyman, Ph.D. ’17 says her suggestibility led to “The Chair.”

Natalie Hodges ’19 talks about her senior thesis-turned-book, “Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time.”