Montage
Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025
From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions
Damage and Repair
Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.
Thinking Straight
Steven Pinker on rationality
From Punk to the Silver Screen
The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77
War, Misremembered
Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.
Border Crossing
Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
The Art of the Portrait Painter
Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.
Supreme Court Brinkmanship
Linda Greenhouse on the 2020-2021 Supreme Court—and the changes to come
How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Visual Music
The "blurred boundaries" of Sam Wu's compositions