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Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025
From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions
Redefining Race as Ethnicity
The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors
From Harvard-Trained Architect to Miniature Diorama Builder
Fred Gevalt’s astonishing and intricate diorama
Recent Books with Harvard Connections: November-December 2024
Books about the art and science of eating, on being Zen, helping youngsters grow up, and more
Henry Hobson Richardson: Architect of Harvard's Iconic Austin and Sever Halls
Invaluable architectural archive published at last
Edwin Frank Explores the 20th-Century Novel in 'Stranger Than Fiction'
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.
Liv Redpath on “What You Can Say” Through Opera
Liv Redpath’s operatic trajectory
The Battle of Antietam: America's Deadliest Day and Its Impact on the Civil War
A new history of the Civil War's Battle of Antietam
Ecological Edges: Darren Sears’s Watercolor Landscapes
The surreal, artistic cartography of Darren Sears
Higher Education Reform and the SAT
Nicholas Lemann on revising standardized testing to address real educational needs
The Friendship of Helen Vendler and Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney writes to Helen Vendler.