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Harvard Book Store welcomes danah boyd—Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University and founder of the research institute Data & Society—for a discussion of her new book, Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census. About Data Are Made, Not Found An eye-opening story of the people […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Emily Ogden—professor of English at the University of Virginia and acclaimed author of On Not Knowing and Credulity—for a discussion of her new book, Darkness Becomes Bright: On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe. About Darkness Becomes Bright A fascinating and intimate inquiry into Edgar Allan Poe’s shadowy life and horrifyingly compelling work—and why […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Jasper Fforde—author of fifteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Eyre Affair, the first book in his Thursday Next series—for a discussion of the eighth and final installment in the Thursday Next series, Dark Reading Matter: The Last Thursday Next Novel. About Dark Reading Matter Will literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next find her happy […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Nghi Vo—USA Today bestselling author of Siren Queen, The Chosen and the Beautiful, Don't Sleep with the Dead, and The City in Glass—for a discussion of her new novel, The Scarlet Ball. She will be joined in conversation by Cassandra Khaw—bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Library at Hellebore, […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Kevin Galvin—former deputy national editor of The Boston Globe and correspondent for the Associated Press and The Seattle Times—for a discussion of his new book, Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing of 1976. He will be joined in conversation by Mitchell Zuckoff—Sumner M. Redstone Professor in Narrative Studies at Boston University and author of nine books, including the […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Simon Critchley—Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York—for a discussion of his new book, Heidegger Thinking: 'Being and Time' Explained. He will be joined in conversation by Sean Kelly—Dean of Arts and Humanities and Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. About Heidegger Thinking […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Aruni Kashyap—acclaimed author, translator, and an associate professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia—for a discussion of his new novel, How to Date a Fanatic. He will be joined in conversation by Neel Mukherjee—award-winning author and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Harvard University. About How to Date a Fanatic […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Cal Hoffman—acclaimed author of Easy to Slip—for a discussion of his new novel, Judah Can't Tell. He will be joined in conversation by Joanna Rakoff—author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the prize-winning novel A Fortunate Age.  About Judah Can't Tell On the morning a powerful US senator is accused of a long-buried sexual scandal, his son […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Ellen Warner—author of The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty—for a discussion of her new book, The Other Half: Forty Men Reveal Life After Fifty.  About The Other Half An insightful and intimate look at aging and masculinity that includes interviews and portraits of men from around the world. What do men really think? […]

Harvard Book Store and the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights welcome Liza Black—associate professor of history and of Native American and Indigenous studies at Indiana University and author of Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960—for a discussion of her new book, How Settlers Get Away with Murder: The Killing of Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit People in the Americas. […]