Humanities & Arts
“Carving Out Time”
A monumental exhibit of woodblock prints from the Harvard Art Museums
by Nina Pasquini
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
by Jacob Sweet
Being Alive Together
Stephen Sondheim, Omicron, and the Power of Theater
by Robin Bernstein
Adamantios Korais
Brief life of a leader of the Greek Enlightenment: 1748-1833
by Panagiotis Roilos
The Poet of Old Age
Donald Hall, chronicler of life
by Adam Kirsch
Critique and Joy
Kevin Young’s anthology of African American poetry, from Phillis Wheatley to hip hop
by Elisa New
Namwali Serpell
The professor of English is also a novelist and a critic.
by Jonathan Shaw
Braxton Shelley
A gospel scholar shapes music theory.
by Jacob Sweet
Democracy Requests the Pleasure of Your Company
Active citizens are humanists.
by Doris Sommer
Not Just “Office Helpers”
From a huge new book on the history of information, an excerpt on the role of secretaries
Culture in the Cold War
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield