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Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025
From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions
Off the Shelf
An editorial sampling of recent books with Harvard connections
"Working Sisters"
Pan Tianshu reviews Leslie Chang's new book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by Pan Tianshu
Chapter & Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
The Maximalist
After a childhood spent playing the classics, cellist Matt Haimovitz has devoted himself to new music.
by Paul Gleason
Stinging the Dinosaurs
An excerpt from The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson
Photos in Thread
Fabric artist Linda Liu Behar stitches embroideries atop her own photographs.
Carpenter Center's Craftsman
A new book, Le Corbusier Le Grand, pulls together the career of Le Corbusier, with material on Harvard’s Carpenter Center.
Art as Chattel
James Cuno reviews Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures, by Cynthia Saltzman
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Blindspot: A Novel
History professor Jill Lepore is the coauthor, with Jane Kamensky, of the historical novel Blindspot, set in colonial Boston.