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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 with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

David Scheffer in 1997 at the Nyanza massacre memorial site in Rwanda

Jacqueline Bhabha reviews David Scheffer's new book on war crimes tribunals

On the evolving system of international criminal justice

by Jacqueline Bhabha

Excerpt from "The Great Divergence" by Timothy Noah

Excerpt from The Great Divergence by Timothy Noah ’80

Anthony Amore at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, with empty frames that held venerable paintings before the 1990 theft

Art Security Expert Anthony Amore on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

A new book shatters myths about art theft.

by David Menconi

The “Enemy Alien Menace” looms over lower Manhattan: The <i>New York Herald,</i> March 28, 1918; cartoon by W.A. Rogers

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

The cover image reproduces a sacred scene in a sacred landscape: “Radha and Krishna Walk in a Flowering Grove,” Kota Master, 18th century

Diana Eck on Hindus' sacred geography India

Diana Eck on Hindus' sacred geography

The only known photograph of the Rufus Buck gang, taken in the summer of 1895 in Indian Territory. Buck is in the middle.

Leonce Gaiter's Western novel describes violence in 1890s Indian Territory

A gritty Western depicts a brief, violent crusade.

by Craig Lambert

Megan Amram

Megan Amram, Twitter comedienne

LA comedy writer Megan Amram has mastered the form of the Twitter joke.

by Craig Lambert

William Stuntz, late Harvard law professor, on American criminal justice

America’s flawed criminal justice system

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words