Featured series 
Tag: Humanities
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Arts & Culture
Wishing real world wasn’t starting to feel so much like her dystopian novel
Celeste Ng discusses new book about mother and son, how the personal becomes political — and vice versa
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Arts & Culture
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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Arts & Culture
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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Arts & Culture
‘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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Arts & Culture
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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Arts & Culture
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
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Arts & Culture
Star of new ‘Odyssey’ adaptation? Your imagination.
Puppet designer on power of negative space to provoke emotion — and creating a convincing Cyclops
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Arts & Culture
Tech has changed. Dating? It’s complicated.
If you think algorithms and chatbots are ruining romance, ‘Labor of Love’ author has a history lesson for you
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Nation & World
‘Sorry to see that 80 years later, this is still an important subject’
Magda Bader was just 14 when the Nazis sent her to Auschwitz. But memory remains clear of losing parents, a sister and her baby, starvation, fear
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Campus & Community
A ‘Wicked’ good time
Actor, singer Cynthia Erivo celebrated as Hasty’s 2025 Woman of the Year
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Arts & Culture
Edvard Munch prints, paintings gifted to Harvard Art Museums
Works will go on display in March exhibition, examining the artist’s experimental printmaking and painting techniques
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Arts & Culture
Why are so many novels set at Harvard?
Beth Blum notes campus is beautiful, romantic setting that lends itself to exploring collision of ideals, reality
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Arts & Culture
More than kind of blue
Imani Perry’s lyrical new book weaves memoir, history to consider central place of a color in Black America
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Arts & Culture
How maps (and cyclists) paved way for roads
Curator takes alternative route through cartographic history and finds a few surprises
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Campus & Community
Jon Hamm named Man of the Year
Hasty Pudding to honor award-winning actor on Jan. 31
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Campus & Community
Universal, adaptable, wearable, vulnerable
‘On Display Harvard’ uses performance, zip ties, to bring attention to the UN’s International Day of Persons With Disabilities
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Arts & Culture
The 20th-century novel, from its corset to bomber jacket phase
In ‘Stranger Than Fiction,’ Edwin Frank chose 32 books to represent the period. He has some regrets.
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Arts & Culture
The very model of a modern major initiative
A.R.T. and Lavine Learning Lab aim to create a space for intergenerational dialogue, deepen student engagement with theater
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Arts & Culture
12 centuries of Ukrainian literature in 12 weeks?
Bohdan Tokarskyi, new assistant professor, says he’s up to the challenge
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Arts & Culture
The problem with knowing everything
‘Rigor of Angels’ author explains how a Borges character with perfect memory illuminates work of Heisenberg, Kant
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Arts & Culture
Preserving Indigenous languages is personal
Ava Silva ’27 working with WOLF Lab to document, study, and preserve the Alabama language of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe
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Arts & Culture
Bot’s literary analysis wasn’t ‘brilliantly original’ — is that beside the point?
Writers Claire Messud, Laura Kipnis debate AI’s merits as a reading companion
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Arts & Culture
‘Dark things can be quite illuminating’
Horror writing instructor defends prestige of ‘genre that bites back’
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Arts & Culture
Does academic writing have to be boring?
English professor, journalist says first step to better prose is being aware that no one has to read you
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Campus & Community
Ukraine’s first lady shares history with Harvard
Olena Zelenska presents Harvard Library with books, shows appreciation for its contribution to Ukrainian studies
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Arts & Culture
Lace up gloves, enter ring, and write
Novelist and boxer Laura van den Berg says the two practices have a lot in common
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Work & Economy
What skeptics get wrong about liberal arts
In podcast episode, an economist, an educator, and a philosopher make the case it’s as essential as ever in today’s job market
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Campus & Community
Gathering in community
The 26th annual Harvard Powwow was a family affair for renowned American Indian scholar Tink Tinker of Osage County and his great-niece Lena Tinker ’25, Osage Nation. “I so appreciate Lena. I’ve watched her grow up,” he said. “We knew when you were little that you were smart. Now you’re almost a Harvard graduate.” Lena…
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Arts & Culture
Making creation a career
Alumni in the arts share insights and lifelong impact of campus involvement
