Arts & Culture
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
“The Art, the Play, and the Rigor”
How flutist Claire Chase signals a key change for Harvard’s music department
by Lucy Caplan
The Pleasure of Noticing
Agnès Varda delivered the second installment of this year’s Norton Lectures on Cinema.
by Sophia Nguyen
Comedy Compulsion
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
by Sophia Nguyen
Looking Back at the Lampoon’s Heyday
A new biopic, scripted by John Aboud ’95 and Michael Colton ’97, follows how Doug Kenney ’68 franchised fun, died young, and became a comedy legend.
by Sophia Nguyen
“I’m a Gambler with the Movies”
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman is the first filmmaker to deliver a Norton Lecture.
by Sophia Nguyen
A Composed Response
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
by Jennifer McFarl...
Sketch Artist
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
by Oset Babür
Nigerian Women Speak Out
HEAR WORD! portrays the lives of Nigerian women.
A Classicist’s Dylan
In a new book, classicist Richard Thomas explores Bob Dylan’s literary ties to ancient Greece and Rome.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Up Close
Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.
by Jennifer Gersten