Montage

Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025

From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions 

by Gabriella Gage

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Recent books with Harvard connections

Straw and Sustainability

In “The Three Little Pigs,” the big, bad wolf huffs and puffs and easily blows down the first piglet’s straw house.

by Craig Lambert

"Anti-Dominant" Journal

A small home for good writing

by Paul Gleason

Felonious Mayhem

Enron and other capitalist calamities

"A Liar's Biography"

An art forger's success has less to do with his prowess as a visual artist than with his use and misuse of history.

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

A Tale of Two Detectives

Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre.

by Paul Gleason

An Argument for Music

Critic Alex Ross keeps "classical" music current...

by Paul Gleason

Two Musical Neighborhoods

Harvard professor Lewis Lockwood and the Julliard String Quartet have collaborated on Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation...