Arts & Culture

Comedy writer Simon Rich talks about turning life into funny fiction, offers tips for young writers

English professor, journalist says first step to better prose is being aware that no one has to read you

Some give up without guilt while others insist going cover to cover. Harvard readers share their criteria.

Novelist and boxer Laura van den Berg says the two practices have a lot in common

Alums help identify, decipher ‘one of the most significant new finds in Greek literature in this century’

Wendel White manifests the impetus behind his new monograph during Harvard talk

‘Reading Rainbow’ theme breaks out at ceremony honoring Black luminaries — including trailblazers in sports, arts, politics, and more

Calligrapher Wang Dongling creates piece with ‘chaotic script’ before Harvard Art Museums audience

Alumni in the arts share insights and lifelong impact of campus involvement

Both spring from hard questions, benefit from interdisciplinary feedback, former Radcliffe fellows say

Globe relationship columnist sorts timeless elements of youth, love, social divisions of 16th-century classic in new A.R.T. production

Sarah Lewis explores the false foundation of America’s racial hierarchy in new book

‘Romeo and Juliet’ is latest in long line of productions stretching back to theater’s inaugural staging in 1980 of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

From Frederick Douglass’ hair to Malcolm X’s tape recorder, Wendel White’s new book puts an abundance of artifacts on display

Artist’s eclectic, connected body of work explores his wide interests — and influence

Writer Simon Rich sketches life in satiric, post-climate-change dystopia through a great-grandfather’s reminiscences

Woodberry Poetry Room embarks on online preservation project

In novel rooted in family lore, Claire Messud trails three generations of family with Algerian roots, lives shaped by displacement, war, social and political upheaval

Exhibit tracing multicultural exchanges over three centuries finds common threads and plenty of drama, from crown envy to tulip mania

Jamaica Kincaid’s new book presents history of colonialism, identity through plants that helped shape it

In Greece, students find intersection of academics and athletics

Graduate student aims to update large gaps in research on argot of Irish Travelers

Harvard Library staff recommendations cover romance, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, memoir, music, politics, history

‘Randomizer’ gets creative gears spinning in ceramic studio

Jesse McCarthy sees Black authors during Cold War philosophically opting for none of the above, and improvising their own way

Martin Puchner is using chatbots to bring to life Socrates, Shakespeare, and Thoreau

Francine Prose’s memoir trails fleeing 26-year-old novelist to S.F., her attraction to deeply troubled, fading counterculture hero

Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies loaning pieces from collection to areas around campus to widen exposure, spark reconsideration

Tiya Miles’ new biography looks at development of ‘eco-spiritual’ worldview, how it served her with Underground Railroad, later missions

A photographer’s love letter to ‘Vision and Justice’