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Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025

From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions 

by Gabriella Gage

Anthologizing Yourself

Mary Jo Salter keeps her own (and others') poetry alive...

by Paul Gleason

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words...

Mother and son, and creator: Eisa Davis with Daniel Breaker, The Youth, and rock musician Stew, who is <em>Passing Strange's </em>Narrator.

Thoroughly Eclectic

Performer Eisa Davis, now starring on Broadway in Passing Strange, stays open to her many artistic passions, including playwriting (Bulrusher, Angela's Mixtape) and singing (her devut album is Something Else)...

by Julia Wallace

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections...

Herschenfeld as Butt, a mechanical bird, in Charles Wuorinen's <em>Haroun</em> and the <em>Sea of Stories</em>.

From Soaps to Solos

Operatic bass Ethan Herschenfeld sings around the world, but also enjoys acting on TV (Damages)...

by Daniela Amini

In <i>Pinkerton&rsquo;s Secret</i>, author Lerner creates a romantic backstory for the famous detective.

Sleuths in Love

Screenwriter turned novelist Eric Lerner ’71 finds his voice...

by Craig Lambert

Nicholas Dawidoff, in uniform here with bat at the ready at the age of 11, describes his devotion to the Red Sox in a new memoir.

A Scatter of Acorns

Excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 memoir The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball...

An HRO rehearsal in the early 1950s.

Two Centuries of Sound

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra: celebrating a fabled orchestra’s origins...

Underground Party

Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling Times Square subway station in Manhattan now have some...

Off the Shelf

Yeltsin: A Life, by Timothy J. Colton, Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies (Basic Books, $35). A monumental biography of the...