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Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025

From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions 

by Gabriella Gage

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

illustration of praising books

Adam Kirsch reviews Lawrence Buell on the Great American Novel

A literary critic on the Great American Novel

by Adam Kirsch

Derek Reist's painting <i>Downtown Gold</i>

Cityscapes by Derek Reist feature sunlight and shadow

Sunlight and shadow star in Derek Reist’s urban landscapes.

by Steve Potter

The Atlantic’s Scott Stossel on anxiety

Scott Stossel ’91 probes anxiety in a personal, revealing, and funny book about a serious subject.

Poet and physician Rafael Campo relaxes at home with a book.

Alterrnative Medicine, poetry book by physician Rafael Campo

Rafael Campo, M.D., straddles medicine and metonymy.

by Stephen Burt

Who knew? One result of combining the profit motive with musicals: an American-Standard product tribute in song

Recent books on reading, Bernard Berenson, neutrino hunters, and more

Recent books with Harvard connections

Seedpods of <i>Magnolia x soulangeana</i> (dispersed by animals)

Seedpod photographs by Anna Laurent

Little packages of DNA that explode with beauty

by Craig Lambert

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Derek Bok of Harvard on U.S. higher education, reviewed by Richard Morrill

Derek Bok’s new book on higher education in America, reviewed by Richard Morrill

by Richard L. Morrill

<i>Earth House Hold </i>

Murray Dewart's sculptures embody life from the inside out

Bronze and granite come alive for Murray Dewart.

by Craig Lambert