Montage
Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025
From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions
High Art
Since its founding, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has commissioned artists to depict explorations of the upper...
Delicious Minimalism
"It’s a food-obsessed culture in Berkeley,” says Mollie Katzen. “It’s a gourmet ghetto—boutique breads and...
Passionate Concierge
Sophisticated counsel on what to read, view, and hear — just a keystroke away
Vulnerable Sculpture
Sculpture breaks free of the frames that confine paintings and drawings. Released into the wider world, sculptures may even inhabit the fourth...
Off the Shelf
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat, by Louise Richardson, Ph.D. ’89, executive dean of the Radcliffe...
Neat Lawns, Nice Neighborhoods
This may make me a less than completely loyal Harvard alumnus, but I can’t help thinking of Geyser University Professor William Julius...
Chapter & Verse
Wayles Brown seeks to locate a story about a boy of English and Hindu parentage who encounters the word “Eurasian” and asks his...
Maestro Lenny
Leonard Bernstein ’39, D.Mus. ’67, will always be remembered as the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, but he was a native New...
A Branch Office Town, But...
In his gift to Red Sox fans, Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top (Simon & Schuster, $26), Seth Mnookin...
Suburban Angst, Chinese-Style
Imagine American Beauty with a Chinese-American cast, or Eat Drink Man Woman transplanted from Taipei to an affluent New York suburb: such...