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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

Sugata Bose reviews Joseph Lelyveld’s Gandhi biography "Great Soul"

Sugata Bose reviews Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, by Joseph Lelyveld.

by Sugata Bose

Anna Pasternak leaps…

In Panama, Anna Pasternak helps at-risk youth through dance.

In Panama, Anna Pasternak helps at-risk youth through dance.

by Craig Lambert

The author in 1974—already infatuated with <i>Apis melllifera</i>—studies a swarm choosing its home.

An excerpt from Thomas D. Seeley's new book, <i>Honeybee Democracy</i>

An excerpt from Thomas D. Seeley's new book, Honeybee Democracy

Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks at home on Martha’s Vineyard, one setting in her new novel

Geraldine Brooks explores seventeenth-century Harvard in <i>Caleb's Crossing.

Geraldine Brooks's new novel stars Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, Harvard's first Native American graduate, A.B. 1665.

by Amelia Atlas

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

John Forster (at keyboard, right) with Tom Chapin (center) and his band, playing at the Turning Point in Piermont, New York.

New musical satire CD "Broadsides" by John Forster and Tom Chapin

A new CD of "op-ed pieces with key signatures"

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

The entry of Major Anderson’s command into Fort Sumter, as depicted in <i>Harper’s Weekly</i>

Michael Bernath reviews Adam Goodheart's book "1861: The Civil War Awakening"

At its sesquicentennial, a fresh, revealing narrative of the advent of the Civil War

by Michael Bernath