Featured series 
Tag: Humanities
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Arts & Culture
Writing about a pet frog is trivial? Anne Fadiman disagrees.
‘We need beauty, wit, and attention to small things even more when we have to face large, painful things,’ essayist says about new book
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Arts & Culture
A treasure trove for K-pop fans
‘Korean Stars’ course inspires Yenching’s 17-box collection of merch spanning ’90s to today
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Arts & Culture
Is this art Celtic? It’s complicated.
New Harvard Art Museums exhibition aims to upend expectations as it explores history, complexity of group of diverse peoples
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Arts & Culture
The art of College poetry
‘This is the thing I love,’ says one Harvard laureate. She’s not alone.
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Campus & Community
You know the author. Meet the typist.
Exhibit celebrates women who labored behind the scenes of masterworks
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Arts & Culture
Where have all the public intellectuals gone?
Panel discusses evolving tradition in U.S. due to social, economic shifts, and need for such thinkers in democratic cultures
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Arts & Culture
Who still goes to the movies?
For some, ease of streaming can’t beat thrill of watching films on the big screen
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Science & Tech
What exactly is consciousness? (And does my Venus flytrap have it too?)
In new book, author Michael Pollan explores nonhuman sentience, stream of thought, AI
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Health
6 keys to a long, healthy life (ice cream included)
Also, why reading Ben Franklin beats climbing Mount Everest
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Campus & Community
What’s the greatest love song of all time?
Faculty and administrators tell you theirs
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Arts & Culture
Tina Fey’s keys to a good joke: Snark, confidence, surprise
Comedian keeps Harvard crowd laughing with longtime co-writer Robert Carlock ’95
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Arts & Culture
What do Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Kushner, and Yo-Yo Ma have in common?
They all visited Harvard as part of arts program kicking off 50th year with talk by Robert Carlock, Tina Fey
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Arts & Culture
Updike’s life in letters
From teen penning fan mail on family farm to Pulitzer Prize-winning author: ‘He needed to write the way most of us need to breathe or eat’
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Campus & Community
‘Talent can be a great hindrance … It’s really about endurance’
MacArthur-winning poet, novelist Ocean Vuong offers advice to young writers at Eliot Memorial Reading
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Arts & Culture
Dramatizing genius
Pop culture portrayals tend to favor the lone mastermind. These faculty faves are more realistic.
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Arts & Culture
When Cambridge was a ‘tiny Cuba’
125 years ago, a Harvard expedition drew 1,200 Cuban educators to class
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Arts & Culture
Who needs the humanities?
Scholars detail how disciplines offer value in cultivating mind, character but also enable fresh perspectives on societal, practical problems
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Arts & Culture
‘Wonder’ director senses your skepticism
But argues ‘radical’ kindness depicted in musical version of bestseller — making world premiere at A.R.T. — might be just what we need right now
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Arts & Culture
You’re not the only one who’s bored
‘Blank Space’ author says pop culture of 21st century has mostly been a dud
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Arts & Culture
From the kitchen to the stage
A.R.T. plans ‘immersive’ adaptation of bestseller about African American cuisine
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Arts & Culture
Tracy K. Smith thinks poetry could help bring us together, if we let it
Two-time U.S. poet laureate recalls her national project to encourage ‘notion that your life must be as important to you as mine is to me’
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Arts & Culture
‘Incredibly serious and unbelievably funny’
Philip Roth biographer, in Harvard talk, digs into novelist’s contradictions, ‘true loves,’ and recurring themes from lust to Jewish life
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Work & Economy
Reese Witherspoon returns to Harvard in a different role
‘Legally Blonde’ star was tired of vying for good parts, so she created her own — and a company worth nearly $1 billion
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Arts & Culture
‘A love letter to drawing’
Exhibit peels back layers to reveal raw expression in monochrome
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Arts & Culture
Educating the eye
Harvard celebrates 150th anniversary of art history department, the nation’s first
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Arts & Culture
Is there a right way to write?
In podcast, professionals share tips on technique, process — and tapping ‘deepest part of yourself, even if you’re writing something that is set on a spaceship’
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Campus & Community
Looks like a book. Reads, to some, like a threat.
Houghton exhibit explores forbidden history
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Arts & Culture
Was ‘Aeneid’ critiquing or glorifying empire?
Authors of new translation dig into lasting impact of epic that Virgil wanted burned
