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Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025

From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions 

by Gabriella Gage

Evan Thomas's biography of President Eisenhower

In Evan Thomas's new biography, President Eisenhower emerges as a canny nuclear strategist.

Art installation by Peter Agoos at Boston's Fort Point Channel

Peter Agoos ’75 brightened Boston’s public art scene this summer.

Recent books by John Updike, George Vaillant, Marjorie Garber, and others

Recent books by John Updike, Marjorie Garber, George Vaillant, Thomas McGraw, and others with Harvard connections

Vegan cookbooks for grill and with alcoholic ingredients

Plant-based pleasure with spirit and sizzle

by Betsy Block

The geometric works of sculptor Morton C. Bradley

The geometric works of sculptor Morton C. Bradley

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, on skewed political power

Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.

by Andrea Louise C...

"Wisteria" CD by jazz pianist Steve Kuhn shows good things come in trios

For his new CD, Wisteria, jazz pianist Steve Kuhn proves good things come in trios.

by Lara Pellegrinelli

Recent books by John Palfrey, E.O. Wilson, George Church, and others

Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections