He just needs to pass the bar now. But blue-collar Conor’s life spirals after a tangled affair at old-money seaside enclave in Teddy Wayne’s literary thriller
Diana Zlatanovski photographed a collection of cicadas housed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology for her new book of images, “Typology: Collections at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.”
American Repertory Theater has been focusing on international collaborations, taking lessons from its recent productions that were able to bring live theater back abroad.
This semester, Harvard archaeology students are dropping in on nearly 90 virtual classrooms as special guest speakers, telling more than 2,500 public and private school students and teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools about subjects ranging from ancient tombs offerings in Mexico to trade practices in the Red Sea region.
Keisha N. Blain, historian and fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, discusses working on her newest book, a compilation of essays, short stories, and poems by 90 Black historians, authors, academics, journalists, and activists that traces the history of African America from 1619 to 2019.
Author and activist Julia Wright, filmmaker Malcolm Wright, and author and Radcliffe Fellow Kiese Laymon discuss the uncut version of Richard Wright’s novel “The Man Who Lived Underground” during a talk supported in part by Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.
In her poem “The Story of Venus,” Suzannah Omonuk imagines what life may have been like for the young enslaved woman living on campus in the 18th century.
Gregg Hecimovich, a Furman University English professor, is working to recover the stories of the Zealy daguerreotypes, which depict enslaved Africans in 19th-century America.
American Repertory Theater’s executive producer Diane Borger to step down in June, returning to London where she spent the first 30 years of her career.
The A.R.T. presents Company One’s production, “Hype Man: a break beat play,” which follows three hip-hop artists as they wrestle with these questions from their rehearsal space to the stage and the streets and back again, against a backdrop of racist violence and inequality. It streams at select times through May 6.
At Radcliffe, Navy veteran Mackin is at work on his next series, “Animals,” featuring a selection of stories left out of his first collection, many inspired by the animals he came across while on duty with a SEAL team in Afghanistan and Iraq.
A panel of experts explored the various ways in which the history of food in art tells a story of creativity and craftsmanship during a recent virtual talk sponsored by the Harvard Art Museums and presented in partnership with the Food Literacy Project at Harvard University Dining Services.
In 1865, Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz traveled to Brazil to create a photographic catalog of people of different races as anatomic evidence in support of his beliefs. Scholars, artists, and curators from Brazil and the U.S. will reflect on these lesser-known images during a panel discussion called “Race, Representation, and Agassiz’s Brazilian Fantasy” hosted by the Peabody Museum.
William Tsutsui, who teaches a course that explores the rich history of Japanese monsters, says which one will win the new “Godzilla vs. Kong” is anybody’s guess.
Harvard art expert Mary Schneider Enriquez reflects on the sale of a digital collage of 5,000 images by the artist known as Beeple. The digital work fetched an eye-popping $69 million in auction last week as a non-fungible token, a type of digital file that uses computer networks to prove a digital item’s authenticity, and is paid for in cryptocurrency.
The George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room will celebrate its 90th anniversary by making some of its first recordings — of the poet T.S. Eliot reading his own work — available to the general public on March 19.
Through the efforts of Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Houghton Library has acquired a first edition of the first novel published by an African American in the U.S.
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