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Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025
From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions
“An Academic Life” by Hanna Holborn Gray reviewed
The former University of Chicago president and Harvard Corporation fellow crafts a timely memoir.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Revisiting Jack Lueders-Booth’s portrait series “Women Prisoners”
The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.
"I want one more shot!": profile of TV writer Nell Scovell
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
"Enlightenment Now," by Steven Pinker, reviewed by Ada Palmer
Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now defends science from modern-day foes.
by Ada Palmer
Brew’s clues: profile of Theresa McCulla, the Smithsonian's "beer historian"
A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.
by Bailey Trela
Excerpt from "The Annotated African American Folktales"
The power and legacy of African-American folktales
Time in space: profile of artist Renée Green
Renée Green’s exhibition “Within Living Memory” closes her Harvard residency.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words