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Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025
From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions
Recent books on inequality in Australia, Harvard math, life after law, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections
Book reviewer George Scialabba practices a radical craft
“One of America’s best all-round intellects” scrutinizes books.
Excerpt from "Fire and Light" by James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns, Ph.D. ’47, on intellect, governance, and the Enlightenment
Composer Michael Friedman and The Civilians
Composer Michael Friedman’s “investigative theater”
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books on women, mapping Manhattan, the Federal Reserve, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard's Walter Johnson on the slave South
The capitalist economy and dark dreams of the slaveholding South
A South African refugee crisis
An alumna recounts a refugee crisis in South Africa.
Max and Trystan Sandvoss make goat cheese in upstate New York.
The brothers Sandvoss moved from glitter to goat cheese.
by Steve Potter
Saxophonist Joshua Redman's sonorous voice on tenor
Joshua Redman's sonorous voice on tenor