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