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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 by David Esterly, Gish Jen, Thomas Kelly, and others

Recent books with Harvard connections

Jennifer Rubell's edible and tactile art, events, and happenings

Jennifer Rubell makes art to touch, crawl into, or even drink and eat.

by Craig Lambert

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Recent books by Mahzarin Banaji, Adrienne Rich, and others

Recent books with Harvard connections

Bernard Bailyn's "The Barbarous Years" reviewed by Daniel K. Richter

The “mixed multitudes” of early Colonial America—and the Native Americans

by Daniel K. Richter

Hannah Lash writes modern music with engaging textures

Hannah Lash’s personal, yet crystalline, music

by Thomas Vinciguerra

Ben Loory writes short, quirky stories

Ben Loory's minimalist stories ambush the reader.

by David Updike

George Howe Colt's new book "Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History"

In Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History, George Howe Colt offers autobiography and biography both.

Artist Samantha Holmes makes contemporary mosaics.

A contemporary take on an ancient medium

by Craig Lambert

The wealth and fall of David and Jackie Siegel: a documentary

A documentary film turns a lens on the “1 percenters.”

by Laura Levis