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Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025
From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions
“Legally Blonde” composer-lyricists Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe profiled
Musicals by Benjamin and O’Keefe excite Broadway.
Geoffrey Biddle takes extraordinary family photographs
Photographs that admire, probe, and “flinch from” family members.
by Steve Potter
Artist Matt Freedman’s “cancer treatment journal” about adenoid cystic carcinoma
Artist Matt Freedman ’78 confronts adenoid cystic carcinoma.
Evan Osnos on contemporary China, Age of Ambition, reviewed by Edward Steinfeld
The Chinese people’s individual acts of self-transformation
Jean's McGarry's dark fiction about a regional subculture of Rhode Island
Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Quilts are art, as the International Quilt Study Center and Museum proves
Fabric art that rises from mattresses to museum walls
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Bob Childs makes world-class violins
Bob Childs makes world-class violins.
by Laura Levis