Montage
Must-Read Harvard Books Winter 2025
From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Impatience Is a Virtue
Violinist-multitasker Sumire Hirotsuru
by Jacob Sweet
“You Need to Move”
A vivid account of climate change and resilience
Something from Nothing
Painter, animator, illustrator, and silhouettist Susan Bin
Comedy with a Conscience
Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
Pinned in Memory
Susan Rubin Suleiman’s memoir of a life in Nazi Hungary—and after
Finding the Movie
Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”
Off the Shelf
In love with Harvard Square, the invention of ICUs, Seamus Heaney
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
by Bailey Trela
The Modern World Reconceived
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”