Humanities & Arts


A Shakespearean Romance

Fifty Years with The Riverside Shakespeare

by Cynthia Lewis

From the Archives: The Market-Model University

Humanities in the age of money

Picasso Reinterpreted

A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”

The Work of Art

At a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Masha Gessen on the Stories We Tell About Migration

The Russian-American journalist challenges “moral defaults” about immigrants. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Rethinking the American High School

What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach

by Jonathan Shaw

“A Sense of Belonging”

A renovation to make Houghton Library “open to all”

by Jacob Sweet

The Physician-Poet

Rafael Campo’s compassionate care

by Lydialyle Gibson

Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora

“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

What a Human Should Be

Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard

by Lily Scherlis

What Counts

Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities