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Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025

From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions 

by Gabriella Gage

Recent books with Harvard Connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Playwright Betty Shamieh's favorite antiheroes and angelic demons

A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore

by Olivia Schwob

Michael Klarman reinterprets the American founding

The anti-democratic origins of the Constitution

by Lincoln Caplan

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Cerise Lim Jacobs's otherworldly operas

In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.

by Sophia Nguyen

Open Book: Bare-Knuckle Politics

Contentious American democracy—in a new case-method history book

The Art of Protest

“It doesn’t even make sense to me that art and protest would be separate.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Animator Tim Reckart and the art of stop-motion acting

The director of Head Over Heels and The Star, on animation's different dimensions

by Sophia Nguyen

Open Book: Bruegel’s Crowd Paintings

Crowd painting that attracts crowds.

Profile of poet Jean Valentine

Poet Jean Valentine on literary companionship

by Lydialyle Gibson