Arts & Culture

Julia Riew was on pre-med track before figuring out she was headed in wrong direction.

Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut connects narrative choices to “very uncomfortable power dynamic” in a conversation with Harvard’s James Wood.

Latinx studies scholar says colonial legacies left them devalued, at risk of being forever lost.

Director of the Harvard Film Archive Haden Guest talks about the lasting hold of “The Godfather” and its status as a milestone film.

Composer and librettist Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg ’22 brings “Nighttown” to the stage.

The acquisition represents a key step in Schlesinger Library’s efforts to capture a broad range of women’s voices and perspectives.

Innovative A.R.T show aims to make clear that land, sea, air, and people form kind of community.

Harvard Library preservation staff races against time to save historical media artifacts.

Harvard students, scholars find everyday rewards on the other side of Joyce’s century-old epic.

Divinity School Professor Davíd Carrasco shared stories from his 32-year friendship with late writer Toni Morrison.

‘Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping’ ruminates on anxieties over intimacy, climate change, and colonialism.

Harvard grad, comedy writer Michael Schur discusses his new book, “How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question.”

Author’s acclaimed works include “Fun Home,” “Are You My Mother?,” “The Secret to Superhuman Strength.”

After pandemic pause in 2021, Harvard troupe celebrates Man of the Year Jason Bateman and Woman of the Year Jennifer Garner.

David Damrosch, chair of the Comparative Literature Department, revised pandemic-era essays into “Around the World in 80 Books.”

Weike Wang tails Harvard-educated ICU doc through surprise visit after her dad’s death in witty look at family, culture, and COVID

Denounced as obscene, Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ exploded old ways of thinking about fiction — and the world itself.

Professor’s research while developing Latin course turns up surprising insights into political, gender, racial, religious identity.

Language expert Steven Pinker explores how the brain tries to make sense of those pesky missing tiles in the popular word puzzle.

Artists digitally remix the everyday sights and sounds of Allston-Brighton in “Frequencies,” showing nightly at Harvard’s Ed Portal through February.

Filmmaker Joel Coen brings a trimmed-down, sparse theatrical version of the Shakespeare play to the screen, says Jeffrey Wilson.

Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman star in the return of the Hasty Pudding’s Man and Woman of the Year awards.

James Joyce will be star of final act of Benjamin Wenzelberg’s undergrad career.

Production archive materials donated by the Apple+ TV series “Dickinson” arrived at Harvard’s Houghton Library.

In excerpt from his new book, Matthew Aucoin details why he chose Whitman as main character in his debut opera “Crossing” at American Repertory Theater.

Sebastián Lelio, director of “A Fantastic Woman,” talks about the film, which tells the story of a transgender woman in Santiago, Chile, and its role in the passage of a landmark Chilean gender-identity law.

Harvard grad John Weidman collaborated with theater giant on “Pacific Overtures,” “Assassins,” and “Road Show.”

Studios reopen for in-person classes in Soca Fusion, Latinx Movement, and more.

Ahead of Harvard football’s annual showdown with Yale, two art historians got into the competitive spirit.

On Friday, Krzysztof Wodiczko discussed the creative impulse behind his work during a pair of talks sponsored by the Graduate School of Design.