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Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025
From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions
The Harvard radio wits of NPR’s “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”
Three Harvard graduates help create the weekly humor of NPR’s Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!
Former financier Norb Vonnegut’s investment-world thriller
Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.
David Wax’s band plays Mexican folk music.
David Wax’s trio La Tuza performs Mexican son music.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Frederick Seidel’s new poetry collection reviewed
Adam Kirsch reviews Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel ’57
by Adam Kirsch
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Diane Paulus directs American Repertory Theater
Diane Paulus, the new artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, has an ambitious populist vision.
Excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen
An excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen ’78
Political satirist Baratunde Thurston of The Onion
Baratunde Thurston ’99 of The Onion combines comedy, politics, and technology.
An excerpt from "Jacob’s Cane"
Socialism as family inconvenience