Arts & Culture

Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Alumni Profiles |

Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Photo of cast of The Hot Wing King

University News |

Katori Hall Wins 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Hot Wing King wins the 2021 prize for drama.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A photograph of Zoe Sarnak performing on stage

Montage | July-August 2021

Putting the Music in Musical Theater

Composer Zoe Sarnak’s warm-hearted songs

by Lydialyle Gibson

Johnson plays his harmonica with the Boston Pops orchestra behind him.

Montage | May-June 2021

A Life in Harmonica

Scott Albert Johnson finds his path.

by Jacob Sweet

Braxton Shelley sits at a keyboard

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2021

Braxton Shelley

A gospel scholar shapes music theory.

by Jacob Sweet

A group photo of the four Harvard undergraduates, including the author, with their project adviser and two local, older mentors

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2021

Between Harvard and St. Louis

The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.

by Che Applewhaite

Photograph of Chris Wallace moderating 2020 presidential debate

Features | May-June 2021

Straight-Up News

Chris Wallace has “the toughest job of any television journalist.”

by Craig Lambert

Several Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students pose for a photograph together, seated at desks and sitting on the floor

Performing & Recorded Arts |

Bringing the Stars to Light

Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A collage of emblematic figures in American history set against the Stars and Stripes

Right Now | March-April 2021

Culture in the Cold War

In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Photo of a cheerleader group composed of elderly women, all in red tops and white skirts, with pompoms

Montage | March-April 2021

When Fantasy Isn’t Enough

Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.

by Alex Huls

Artist Shen Wei in his studio amid his large-scale abstract paintings

Harvard Squared | March-April 2021

Painterly Dances, Danceable Paintings

“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

by Nell Porter Brown