Featured series 
Tag: Humanities
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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
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Arts & Culture
Brief bursts of wisdom
Aphorism lover and historian James Geary reflects on how ancient literary art form fits into age of social media
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Science & Tech
What will AI mean for humanity?
Scholars from range of disciplines see red flags, possibilities ahead
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Campus & Community
She pioneered study of hip-hop as high art
Harvard renames first-of-its-kind archive after founder Marcyliena Morgan, who died recently at age 75
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Arts & Culture
Live fast, die young, inspire Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt finds a tragic strain in the life and work of Christopher Marlowe
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Arts & Culture
Steve McQueen could lecture you, but he’s got other plans
‘I think the audience needs more, and I feel I need to give more,’ says award-winning filmmaker — presenter of this year’s Norton talks
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Arts & Culture
Marking 100 years of Norton Lectures
Panelists reflect on ‘incredible value’ of annual series as ‘megaphone’ for artists and scholars
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Arts & Culture
How fashion police have been walking beat for centuries
Houghton Library exhibit highlights the policing of women’s fashion since the 17th century.
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Arts & Culture
Funny or failure? It’s a fine line.
‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ writer on taking risks in comedy and why getting laughs is worth near-constant rejection
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Arts & Culture
Reading like it’s 1989
Report on classroom literature shows staying power for ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Of Mice and Men,’ other classics. Time to move on?
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Nation & World
Why Malcolm X matters even more 60 years after his killing
New book by Mark Whitaker examines growth of artistic, political, cultural influence of controversial Civil Rights icon
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Arts & Culture
Carving a place in outer space for the humanities
The cosmos ‘is as weird and astonishing as any great work of art,’ argues Jennifer Roberts, and navigating it requires ‘a new kind of ethics’
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Arts & Culture
From tragedy to ‘Ecstasy’
Ivy Pochoda’s feminist retelling of ‘The Bacchae’ examines freedom from inhibition with Electronic Dance Music beat
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Arts & Culture
From ‘joyous’ to ‘erotically engaged’ to ‘white-hot angry’
Stephanie Burt’s new anthology rounds up 51 works by queer and trans poets spanning generations
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Campus & Community
Hey you, hold onto your humanity. You’ll thank me later.
A little advice for the graduates — or, at least, for one of them (you know who you are)
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Campus & Community
Finding common humanity, modern lessons in antiquity, a path forward
Yurong ‘Luanna’ Jiang, Aidan Scully, Thor Reimann to deliver orations
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Arts & Culture
Talking about music doesn’t have to be difficult
Yeats poem inspires 3 songs and deep listening, discussion at Mahindra event
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Arts & Culture
Science Center Plaza is alive with the sound of music
Harvard Arts Fest brings artmaking and creativity to campus
