Arts & Culture

Barry Van Dusen’s watercolor of an Eastern bluebird, as described. by Henry David Thoreau

Montage | July-August 2024

Off the Shelf

Painting with Monet, birding with Thoreau, and other recent books

Photograph of swimming hole cut in ice

Montage | May-June 2020

Taking the Plunge

The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.

J. B. Jackson drawing of telephone poles on open plain

Montage | May-June 2020

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

At Home with Harvard |

At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life

Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.

photograph of Lizabeth Cohen

University News |

Lizabeth Cohen Awarded Bancroft Prize

The urban historian is honored—for the second time.

by John S. Rosenberg

Photograph by Ken Liu

Students & Alumni |

Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse

Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity

by Bennett McIntosh

Photograph of Emily Dickinson’s family home, The Homestead, an elegant wooden building

Harvard Squared | March-April 2020

A Mind of One’s Own

Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson

by Nell Porter Brown

German author Karl May dressed as his Old West hero, Old Shatterhand

Features | March-April 2020

Karl May

Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912

by Eugene Stelzig

Photograph of the two actors on stage

Montage | March-April 2020

Deep Roots

Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.

by Olivia Schwob

Photo of a young boy reading a book

Montage | March-April 2020

Personal History

An addiction to reading

A view of the Frank House study in 1940, with many books and examples of modern art from the 1930s

Montage | March-April 2020

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections