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Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025

From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions 

by Gabriella Gage

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

A seven-drawer desk (detail)

Anthony Giachetti makes wood furniture an art form

Anthony Giachetti’s furniture is both functional and timeless.

Crisis of American neoliberal capitalism

A critique of the neoliberal economy

Though A Far Cry tours nationally and abroad, the group still calls Boston home, renting a storefront in Jamaica Plain as rehearsal space.

Self-conducting chamber orchestra, A Far Cry, grows into its eighth season

A Far Cry plays con spirito—and without a baton.

by Sophia Nguyen

Amy Wilentz

"Farewell, Fred Voodoo" by Amy Wilentz continues her long coverage of Haiti

Amy Wilentz on her “touchstone and central obsession”

by Craig Lambert

America’s (and Harvard’s) first Chinese-language teacher, Ge Kunhua, circa 1880

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Shakespeare, as rendered in an eighteenth-century engraving

Neil Rudenstine reinterprets Shakespeare's sonnets

Neil Rudenstine guides readers through Shakespeare’s lyric masterpiece.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

The endless pain of the Middle East: woman and dead child near Aleppo, Syria (undated)

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent Books with Harvard connections

A silhouette can be seen in the negative space around the fountain at a Roxbury park.

Ross Miller makes public art around Boston

Ross Miller’s public art in overlooked places captivates viewers.

by Stephanie Garlock