Montage
Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025
From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions
Flexible Movies
“You never see cartoons where there are bad outcomes,” says Michelle Crames, M.B.A. ’03, founder and CEO of Lean Forward Media...
Twin Passions
Both these elegant little books on science and religion are by eminent Harvard professors emeriti—much-revered researchers, writers, and...
An Earlier Bid for Mastery
New genetic knowledge may let us manipulate our nature: beef up our muscles, brush up our memory, make designer children. What’s wrong...
Joculor, Ergo Sum
From their freshman year in college they were inseparable pals, once called “the Mutt and Jeff of post-Kantian idealism.” That...
Sexy Struts
Start with a stance that points the heel of one foot toward the middle of the other. Stand up tall, your back slightly arched. Stride forward...
Chapter & Verse
~Who proclaimed that photography is to painting as water is to wine? ~Who protested, “They have taken away all our liberties—now...
"The Monet of the Mountaintop"
Peter C. Liman, M.A.T. ’63, spent his business career as a marketing executive in toiletries and over-the-counter...
Talented Eccentrics
Within living memory, computer programming was handicraft. Individual programmers strained to create works that were both useful and...
Off the Shelf
Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853, by George Feifer ’56 (Smithsonian Books, $25.95)...
Judy Budnitz: Flying Leaps
In Nice Big American Baby, the newest collection of short stories by Judy Budnitz ’95, the author considers mothers and babies—and...