Maggie Doherty annotates the inaugural cover of the feminist magazine.

The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...

What is Tolstoy’s Hélène really, truly wearing at the Moscow opera?

“I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”

Please join us for an evening of poetry readings, stories, and music celebrating the life of Professor Helen Vendler at 5PM on April 30th (Vendler’s birthday). Co- hosted by...

Where is liberalism’s “Fascinating Fascism”? Who is its Riefenstahl?

Film Archivist Barbara Hall was thanked by her nephew, Andy Jurgensen, after winning the Oscar for Best Film Editing. That's neat! Let's talk about it!

The Grolier Club

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As women came into the workforce in the early twentieth century, the image of the working woman entered the cultural imagination. In Hollywood, she was often what Maria DiBattista has called the &ldqu...

Houghton Library welcomes Erin McGuirl, Curator of the Mortimer Rare Book Collection at Smith College, who will give the Spring 2026 George Parker Winship Lecture on "No Modern...

This week: movie poster art, the typist behind Henry James’s novels, Gisèle Pelicot’s new memoir, indie rock in “Heated Rivalry,” and are we in an arts and crafts renaissance?

Harvard’s Houghton Library puts the typewriter front and center to explore the lost labor — and art — of the typist.

Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and even less recognition. Christine Jacobson explores the neglected efforts of women li...