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SUMMARY:Taylor Grothe at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Taylor Grothe—writer of adult and young adult horror\, horror romance\, and dark fantasy\, and scholar of medieval literature and Nordic Saga—for a discussion of their adult debut novel\, Lethal Kiss. They will be joined in conversation by Christa Carmen—Bram Stoker Award-winning and three-time Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island\, How to Fake a Haunting\, and Beneath the Poet’s House.  \nAbout Lethal Kiss\nA blood-soaked love story of rage\, revenge\, and belonging\, Taylor Grothe’s adult debut is a sapphic horror/romance that’s as grotesque as it is beautiful. \nPreston University wasn’t Marcella’s first choice of employment\, but there’s only so many deaths that can be chalked up to mysterious circumstances before people get suspicious\, and her 300 years on Earth have taught her how to pack up and move quickly. She’s resolved to keep her head down and enjoy a couple semesters at Preston—and keep her feedings few and far between. That is\, until a professor is found murdered on campus\, and it’s not her doing. \nWhen Lacie was hired as an assistant professor at Preston a year ago\, she knew not everyone makes tenure. But when her only friend disappears without a word\, she begins to suspect that her other missing coworkers didn’t just quit. Unfortunately\, there’s only one person she can trust enough to ask for help—the beautiful\, aloof\, and tantalizingly secretive latecomer\, Marcella. \nLacie and Marcella team up to make a chilling discovery: there’s something festering under the marble floors of Preston University\, and it’s hungry. Marcella might be a monster\, but the deeper into the mystery they dig\, the more she’s attracted to Lacie’s immovable bravery and quiet intelligence. And the closer they grow\, the more Lacie is drawn to Marcella’s vicious nature. \nThe weight of spilled blood and stolen opportunity might be too heavy to carry alone\, so it’s a good thing they have each other. Marcella just has to get her fill\, first.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/taylor-grothe-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Dr. Raj Panjabi at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Dr. Raj Panjabi—Former White House Senior Director\, Senior Partner at Flagship Pioneering\, and Associate Physician at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School—for a discussion of his new book\, Safer: A Playbook—Turning Fear into Action and Crisis into Community.  \nAbout Safer\nThe essential guide for navigating crisis and uncertainty from the acclaimed physician who led the White House response to the world’s most dangerous health emergencies. \nWhen crisis hits—a sudden illness\, a global disruption\, or a career upheaval—our instinct is to retreat. Yet decades of research prove that our greatest protection isn’t isolation\, it’s connection. \nFrom high-stakes decisions in the White House Situation Room and hospital emergency room to dramatic shocks of violence and illness his family struggled with in their own living room\, Dr. Raj Panjabi has navigated humanity’s most precarious moments. Now\, he translates hard-earned wisdom into a step-by-step roadmap. Through gripping storytelling and cutting-edge science\, Safer reveals the eight practical “plays” to protect what matters most at home and work. \nYou will learn how to: \n\nNavigate Fear and Denial: Use Situation Room insights to take decisive action without falling into paralysis.\nCut Through the Noise: Use science to assess your risk and protect those you love amidst the flood of misinformation.\nBuild Trust in Divided Times: Move from isolation to connection and find common ground.\nGain Control Despite Chaos: Adapt to change and transform vulnerability into your greatest strength.\n\nIn an era of uncertainty\, you don’t have to live in fear. You just need a better playbook. Safer gives us the tools for emerging from any crisis more connected than ever before.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/dr-raj-panjabi-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261030T190000
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SUMMARY:Edward Steed at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Edward Steed—award-winning cartoonist for the New Yorker and Grammy-winner for Best Recording Package for his Father John Misty album cover—for a discussion of his new book\, Happy Hour: A Book of Drawings. He will be joined in conversation with Ruth Lichtman— Emmy-nominated director and producer of film\, audio\, and theatre. \nAbout Happy Hour\nA generational talent’s old cartooning soul returns for a second round.  \nEdward Steed continues his winning streak as the most exciting cartoonist in The New Yorker’s pages in the 21st century. Hailed as the last great hope of the single panel gag strip\, the sole saving grace of a print media taking its last dying breaths\, Steed brings a deftly scrawled lacerating sense of humour that alludes to classic New Yorker cartoonists like Charles Addams\, William Steig\, and Sol Stenberg as well as modern cringe alt-comedy. \nWith Happy Hour out hot on the heels of his best-selling and critically-lauded debut collection\, Forces of Nature\, Steed proves he’s no flash in the pan but an enduring comedic talent. Every page in this collection is a hilarious master class on how to tickle a funnybone.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/edward-steed-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Harvard Book Store After Dark
DESCRIPTION:Happy Halloween! Stop by Harvard Book Store for a special Halloween trick-or-treating shopping experience. \nFrom 8:00pm-10:00pm\, we’ll be turning the lights off for some spooky browsing among the shadows\, where participants will be provided a flashlight (while supplies last). Customers who wear their Halloween costume during this shopping experience will get 15% off their purchase\, valid only on October 31\, 2026 from the hours on 8:00pm-10:00pm\, excludes items already discounted. Candy will be given out\, while supplies last. \nThis shopping experience is free to attend\, but please RSVP below so we have a rough idea of how many customers to expect.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/harvard-book-store-after-dark/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deni Elliott at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Deni Elliott—co-director for the National Ethics Project and professor emerita in the Department of Journalism and Digital Communication at the University of South Florida—for a discussion of her new book\, Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself. \nAbout Catching Sight\nOne woman’s journey through progressive blindness and the extraordinary guide dog who kept her safe along the way.  \nWhen ethics scholar Deni Elliott\, born with limited vision\, realized she could no longer navigate the world safely alone\, she turned to a guide dog—a decision that reshaped her understanding of disability and independence. \nWritten in collaboration with master trainer Graham Buck\, Catching Sight offers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of guide dog breeding and training\, revealing the intelligence and decision-making skills these dogs develop from birth. \nCatching Sight is for readers interested in the transformative power of human relationships with animals. As Deni confronts her changing reality\, she shares the hidden world of guide dog training and introduces Alberta\, a yellow Lab whose quiet brilliance changed her interaction with the world and herself. \nCatching Sight offers a fresh and unforgettable perspective on disability\, identity\, and the power of partnership.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/deni-elliott-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Riley Black at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Riley Black—science correspondent for Smithsonian\, widely-recognized expert on paleontology\, and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs—for a discussion of their new book\, Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love\, Life\, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore. \nAbout Tyrant Lizard Queen\nFrom the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs\, an imaginative celebration of T. Rex from hatching to adulthood.  \nTyrannosaurus rex is a prehistoric celebrity. Exceeding 40 feet in length and weighing over 9 tons\, the largest individuals of this dinosaurian species were intimidating predators capable of crushing bone and consuming more than a hundred pounds of flesh in a bite. But the last of the tyrant dinosaurs had a life beyond ripping and tearing. More than 66 million years ago\, T. rex courted each other\, nested\, watched over their offspring\, slept\, drank\, and explored ancient floodplains inhabited by a fantastic cast of impressive dinosaurs like the huge long-neck Alamosaurus and burly\, three-horned Torosaurus. For the first time\, the life story of this impressive\, sensitive predator is told as if you were there to watch it unfold. \nIn her latest prehistoric nature walk\, bestselling and award-winning author Riley Black follows the life of plucky T. rex Snaggletooth from the time she hatches through her tumultuous adulthood. The prehistoric forest Snag emerges into is full of danger\, and yet\, as Riley weaves the latest fossil discoveries into the story\, the carnivorous dinosaur survives to play\, court\, fight\, sleep\, nest\, and more as she grows up in Cretaceous North America. She tussles with rival tyrannosaurs\, hunts for delectable prey\, and finds soft moments of connection in the forest. Even the most die-hard dinosaur fan will come away with a new perspective and appreciation for the Tyrant Lizard Queen.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/riley-black-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T190000
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SUMMARY:Lloyd Schwartz at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Lloyd Schwartz—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism\, Poet Laureate of Somerville\, and the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston—for a discussion of his latest poetry collection\, Artur Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti Play Mozart at the Frick Collection (April 4\, 1948) and Other Poems.  \nAbout Artur Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti Play Mozart at the Frick Collection (April 4\, 1948) and Other Poems\nLloyd Schwartz’s luminous new collection Artur Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti Play Mozart at the Frick Collection (April 4\, 1948)and other poems reaffirms his place as one of our most keenly attentive poetic voices. With characteristic wit\, intimacy\, and musical acumen\, these poems move fluidly between the rooms of memory and the rooms we live in\, between wry horror\, elegy\, and celebration. The title poem “has so many planes\,” said Helen Vendler. “It’s one of the most dramatic lyrics I think that it’s possible to write.” One of our most celebrated music critics tunes his verse to what Nicholas Everett tags the “idioms and nuances of American speech.” It’s like being invited into the cluttered study of a good and brilliant friend\, where even the most mundane observation is shot through with a bemused heart buoyed by the nimblest of intellects. Each line twinkles at “That dark\, knowing little joke\,” that we are all of us connected deeply and across time by the art we love and create\, and that attention itself is the highest form of devotion.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/lloyd-schwartz-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:David Weinberger at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes David Weinberger—researcher at Harvard metaLAB\, long-time affiliate of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center\, and bestselling author of Everyday Chaos—for a discussion of his new book\, Beautiful Particulars: How AI’s Attention to the Smallest of Differences Is Reshaping Our Biggest Ideas. \nAbout Beautiful Particulars\nA fresh and eye-opening new explanation of AI—and how its focus on specifics is changing our ideas about ourselves and our world. \nFrom a Harvard researcher\, philosopher\, entrepreneur\, former comedy writer\, and bestselling author.  \nAmid the clamor about AI\, Beautiful Particulars poses a unique question: Not how does our use of AI change what we do\, but how is the idea of AI already subtly yet fundamentally reshaping how we think about ourselves and our world? \nIn clear\, engaging\, and even humorous prose\, David Weinberger offers a new perspective on how machine learning works and how it may already be changing our basic and deepest ideas. Through lively examples\, he shows that AI’s success—with all its risks and dangers—is taking us past our millennia of reliance on laws and principles by revealing what morality\, free will\, creativity\, causality knowledge\, and even reality itself look like now that we’re able to let the particulars speak their tiny truths. \nThe author poses questions not usually asked: What does a coin look like to AI? When AI gives you evidence that the earth is round\, why are its own reasons for saying that so different? Why does an AI image generator create a “selfie” of ancient Aztec warriors with broad smiles that it “believes” are historically unlikely? If AI becomes conscious but bodiless\, could it still make good moral decisions? Why is the world so much better at being causal than AI could ever “understand”? How does AI show us that genuine creativity is not about a “spark” but about moments that feel right? And how can you take the temperature of a joke? \nBeautiful Particulars offers a new—and hopeful—perspective on how machine learning works\, and how that’s already changing how we understand what it means to be human in the age of AI.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/david-weinberger-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Dana Mashoian Walrath at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Dana Mashoian Walrath—award-winning writer\, artist\, and author of the graphic memoir Aliceheimer’s—for a discussion of her haunting new graphic narrative\, The Book of Genocides. \nAbout The Book of Genocides\nIn this haunting graphic narrative\, an award-winning writer\, artist\, and descendant of genocide survivors brings history’s darkest horrors to life\, calling on us to remember\, repair\, and resist. \nThe Book of Genocides is a haunting graphic narrative that compels readers to confront the most harrowing chapters of human history not as distant events but as visceral experiences. Dana Mashoian Walrath covers ten major atrocities across five centuries: the mass slaughter of the First Peoples of the Americas\, the brutalization of Black Americans\, the devastation of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders\, the Armenian genocide\, the Holocaust\, the Cambodian killing fields\, the Rwandan genocide\, the Bosnian genocide\, the deadly persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar\, and the genocide in Gaza. \nWalrath makes plain that the purpose of genocide is always a land grab\, and its central apparatus is dehumanization: each chapter delves into how dehumanization operates\, not just through violence but through the political and intellectual systems that enable it. The book’s unique interactive design allows readers to reshape images of victims into grotesque forms mirroring the mental mechanisms of dehumanization. With each page turn\, the victims’ humanity is restored\, making their suffering undeniable. \nThe Book of Genocides is an unsettling experience\, shot through with the emotional gravity of horrific events—not just historical memories but ongoing realities\, painful truths that shape our world and demand our action.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/dana-mashoian-walrath-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Charrise Barron at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Charrise Barron—minister\, a gospel artist\, and Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University—for a discussion of her new book\, The Platinum Age of Gospel: The Years When Crossover Music Changed Everything. She will be joined in conversation by Jeremy D. Battle—senior pastor at The Avenue: The Historic Massachusetts Avenue & Western Avenue Baptist Church. \nAbout The Platinum Age of Gospel\nThe story of gospel music’s chartbusting mainstream success and the accompanying shifts in Black Christian theology. \nFrom the clandestine spirituals of the enslaved—songs that voiced sorrow\, hope\, and an unshakeable belief in divine deliverance—to the rousing anthems of the Civil Rights era\, gospel music has shaped and reflected the deepest yearnings of Black Americans striving toward freedom. During gospel’s celebrated golden age (ca. 1945–1965)\, the music became inseparable from the struggle for racial justice. At the same time\, the genre gained unprecedented visibility in Black churches and the American mainstream. Performers such as Clara Ward\, Mahalia Jackson\, and Sam Cooke expanded the reach of sacred music\, carrying its message across cultural and religious boundaries. \nEthnomusicologist\, minister\, and singer Charrise Barron explores the next major era in Black gospel: the two decades between 1993 and 2013\, which she calls the platinum age. In this transformative period\, gospel music fully embraced the aesthetics of popular culture. Artists like Kirk Franklin and Mary Mary topped the charts\, adopted contemporary styles\, and reached audiences far beyond traditional church settings. Commercial success both fostered and responded to profound shifts. Influenced by Pentecostal megachurches and new theological trends\, platinum-age gospel retained its spiritual resonance while largely dispensing with the golden age’s political impulses. \nWhile the platinum age delivered popularity and financial returns\, it also diluted gospel’s historical role as a prophetic voice against injustice. Combining music criticism\, cultural history\, and theological insight\, Barron offers a compelling account of how gospel music has continually reinvented itself—and what it gained and lost in the process.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/charrise-barron-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Shaul Magid and Zev Mishell at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Shaul Magid—Professor of Modern Judaism in Residence at Harvard Divinity School—and Zev Mishell—graduate student at Harvard University’s Committee on the Study of Religion—for a discussion of their new book\, Jewish Anti-Zionism: A Historical Anthology. \nAbout Jewish Anti-Zionism\nA collection of texts illustrating the complex reasons why Jews have contested or rejected the Zionist ideal over more than a century.  \nIn the decades since the founding of the state of Israel in 1948\, many have equated Zionism with Jewish identity—and anti-Zionism with antisemitism. Few remember now that the Zionist movement triggered passionate debate among Jews\, with many expressing ambivalence or opposition to the Zionist project. In Jewish Anti-Zionism\, Shaul Magid and Zev Mishell have gathered a broad selection of documents\, written between the late nineteenth century and the present day\, many of them newly translated into English from multiple languages\, revealing the rich variety of Jewish opposition to Zionism over the decades. Following Magid and Mishell’s authoritative introduction on the history of anti-Zionism among Jews\, the book features dozens of texts by Jewish writers from diverse backgrounds discussing why they reject the Zionist idea as the best option for Jewish flourishing. \nThe documents reflect a lively debate carried out though multiple forms—personal letters\, essays\, speeches\, manifestos\, newspaper columns\, and extracts from learned treatises. The authors range from scholars and other thinkers writing well before the establishment of the state of Israel to well-known contemporary voices including Peter Beinart\, Noam Chomsky\, Naomi Klein\, and Judith Butler. Magid and Mishell preface each text with a short introduction that offers historical and ideological context.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/shaul-magid-and-zev-mishell-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Janet Rich Edwards at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Janet Rich Edwards—professor of epidemiology at Harvard University who works in the Division of Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital—for a discussion of her national bestselling debut novel\, Canticle\, newly available in paperback in November 2026. \nAbout Canticle\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION * NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE * REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOKS OF 2025 * SPOTIFY BEST DEBUTS OF 2025 * GOODREADS READERS’ MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL \nA masterful debut novel following a spirited young woman’s explorations of faith\, agency\, and love in thirteenth-century Bruges. \nAleys is sixteen years old and unusual: stubborn\, bright\, and prone to religious visions. She and her only friend\, Finn\, a young scholar\, have been learning Latin together in secret—but just as she thinks their connection might become something more\, everything unravels. When her father promises her in marriage to a merchant she doesn’t love\, she runs away from home\, finding shelter among the beguines\, a fiercely independent community of religious women who refuse to answer to the Church. \nAmong these hardworking and strong-willed women\, Aleys glimpses for the first time the joys of belonging: a life of song\, meaning\, and friendship in the markets and along the canals of Bruges. But forces both mystical and political are at work. Illegal translations of scripture\, the women’s independence\, and a sudden rash of miracles all draw the attention of an ambitious bishop—and bring Aleys and those around her into ever-increasing danger\, a danger that will push Aleys to a new understanding of love and sacrifice. \nGrounded in the little-told stories of medieval women—mystics\, saints\, anchoresses\, and beguines—and introducing a major new talent\, Canticle is a luminous work of historical fiction\, vividly evoking a world on the verge of transformation.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/janet-rich-edwards-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Dr. Omékongo Dibinga at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Dr. Omékongo Dibinga—international speaker\, trilingual poet\, podcast host\, rapper\, and professor of Intercultural Communication at American University—for a discussion of his new book\, Trigger Words: How Political Language Has Made America Less Inclusive (And How to Bring Us Back Together). \nAbout Trigger Words\nTrigger Words examines how language in the United States has been manipulated and politicized to sow division and dehumanization\, rather than to encourage inclusion and equity. From “woke” to “DEI” to “CRT\,” words that once emerged from marginalized communities to speak truth to power have been weaponized by conservative movements—especially the MAGA wing of the Republican Party—to stoke fear\, shut down dialogue\, and preserve systems of oppression. At the same time\, however\, language has been coopted by many in liberal spaces in watered-down ways that remove the overall message that was intended to be communicated by said language\, such as switching terminology from “homeless” to “unhoused\,” “African American” to “BIPOC\,” or “Latino” to “Latinx.” \nThis incisive and thoughtful look at how our language has been dangerously politicized by both sides of the aisle is not just a diagnosis—it is a roadmap. With experience as a university lecturer\, community activist\, award-winning poet\, renowned professional speaker\, and author (Lies About Black People)\, Dr. Omékongo Dibinga charts a path forward to reclaim and reframe these terms in their original contexts and intent. \nTrigger Words is an urgent and hopeful call to action that shows that healing begins when we stop simply repeating these words like ideological mantras or rejecting them out of political fear. Instead\, the book invites readers to understand the deeper histories behind our most loaded social vocabulary\, challenge manipulation and misuse\, and foster authentic dialogue that connects rather than divides.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/dr-omekongo-dibinga-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Rodrigo Nunes at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Rodrigo Nunes—associate professor in philosophy at PUC-Rio\, Brazil\, a visiting fellow at the University of Essex\, UK\, and the author of Neither Vertical nor Horizontal and Organisation of the Organisationless —for a discussion of his new book\, Anatomy of Disintegration: What Brazil Reveals About the Global Far Right.  \nAbout Anatomy of Disintegration\nA leading political philosopher dissects the global far right’s appeal through the lens of Bolsonarismo\, tracing its roots to the social disintegration caused by the crisis of neoliberalism and looming climate change. \nFor four years\, Jair Bolsonaro led Brazil and the popular\, far-right movement that bore his name. His rise\, defeat\, and the chaos he left in his wake reflect patterns that are playing out in several countries\, from the US to Argentina to India. In Anatomy of Disintegration\, Rodrigo Nunes uses Brazil as a point of departure to make sense of why the far right is on the rise all over the world\, where its appeal comes from\, and explain the dystopian horizon it is moving toward. \nThrough sharp\, original analyses of the social composition of its supporters\, the material and affective conditions that underpin it\, and the mainstream’s inability to respond to it\, Rodrigo Nunes argues that the contemporary far right is better understood not as an effort to block but as an attempt to harness and accelerate forces of social disintegration set in motion by capital and intensified by the crisis of neoliberalism.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/rodrigo-nunes-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Brian D. Goldstein at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Brian D. Goldstein—architectural and urban historian\, an associate professor and chair of the Art History Program at Swarthmore College\, and author of the award-winning book The Roots of Urban Renaissance—for a discussion of his new book\, Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect. \nAbout Max Bond\nThe first biography of a preeminent postwar architect who championed the cause of freedom through architecture and transformed Black history and modernism. \nJ. Max Bond Jr. (1935–2009) was a civil rights activist\, educator\, and architect who shaped such iconic structures as the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta\, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington\, DC\, and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in Manhattan. Driven by the concerns of the civil rights movement\, he insisted on a practice centered on deep social engagement during years when his profession became preoccupied with celebrity and spectacle. \nHarvard educated and son of an eminent African American family\, Bond designed housing\, cultural institutions\, community centers\, and campuses amid an era of sweeping changes in architecture\, urbanism\, and American culture. He expressed an architectural vision that was democratic and inclusive\, international in orientation\, and celebratory of cities and their diverse residents. Yet his work has often been overlooked. Award-winning historian Brian Goldstein renders it visible. \nBeautifully illustrated\, Max Bond is the definitive biography of one of the most important architects of our time\, whose aspiration toward an architecture by and for the people was as urgent in his day as it remains in our own.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/brian-d-goldstein-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:November Harvard Square Book Circle
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our November Harvard Square Book Circle meeting!\nThis month we’re discussing Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. \nDon’t forget each book we discuss is part of our featured Select 70 for frequent buyer members. \nThe Book Circle is Harvard Book Store’s monthly book club open for members of the community to meet and discuss a thoughtfully selected book. We’ll meet in the third room of the store from 6–7:30 PM. Registration is not required and no commitment is necessary. We love new participants! If you are interested in joining the Book Circle’s email list\, sign up through this form.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/november-harvard-square-book-circle/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Christy Scott Cashman at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Christy Scott Cashman—best-selling and award-winning author\, actress\, producer\, and the founder of the nonprofit YouthINK—for a discussion of her new novel\, What Happened in Beulah. \nAbout What Happened in Beulah\nA teenage girl uncovers the dark secrets of her Smoky Mountain town while searching for a missing classmate in this gripping coming-of-age mystery perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing. \nNestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains\, Beulah has always seemed steady—rooted in tradition\, shaped by generations\, and slow to change. But in 1986\, the ground has shifted\, and no one feels that more than fifteen-year-old Barrett Childress Owens. Between her parents’ unraveling marriage and a school full of kids she can’t connect with\, she feels invisible in her own hometown. \nWhen Lacy Gunderson\, the captivating new girl everyone is curious about\, suddenly vanishes\, the town’s calm surface fractures. Search parties comb the woods. A police investigation begins. Rumors multiply. Families close ranks. And Barrett begins to sense how much the adults around her choose not to say. As Beulah clings to its usual rituals—including the annual Miss Kudzu pageant\, which has shaped local girlhood for decades—Barrett is forced to navigate a community where loss lingers in the air and secrets are carefully kept. Her journey through the uncertainty reshapes her understanding of friendships\, family\, and the complex place she calls home. \nA rich coming-of-age story with a pulse of mystery and a budding romance\, What Happened in Beulah explores the fault lines of a small town and the courage it takes to face the truths people would rather bury.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/christy-scott-cashman-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Stephen Kinzer at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Stephen Kinzer—award-winning writer and correspondent\, and Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University—for a discussion of his new book\, Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine. \nAbout Boiling Point\nFrom bestselling author Stephen Kinzer\, the untold history of America’s secret seventy-five-year struggle in Ukraine that set the stage for today’s war. \nThe war in Ukraine has dominated world headlines for nearly four years. It caught most people by surprise. Until the Russian invasion in February 2022\, few Americans even knew where Ukraine was. Once the fighting began\, however\, support for its cause surged instinctively–Russia was the aggressor\, Ukraine its victim. Yet the war did not explode out of nowhere. For seventy-five years\, Moscow and Washington fought over Ukraine in the most sustained covert conflict in modern history. Both sides wanted to keep it hidden. They succeeded–until now. \nIn this groundbreaking book\, Stephen Kinzer tells that story for the first time. Beginning in the refugee camps of postwar Europe\, where CIA officers recruited Ukrainians to infiltrate their homeland\, it follows generations of rebels\, exiles\, traitors\, and covert operatives through decades of clandestine missions. Nearly all of those early fighters were captured or killed\, yet the CIA never gave up. From the late 1940s through the end of the Cold War\, American leaders saw Ukrainians as their most effective weapon against Moscow\, and they continued to press that strategy after Ukraine’s independence\, especially as NATO expanded eastward. \nRichly detailed and plot-driven\, Boiling Point shows how the United States made Ukraine its most important European project of the twenty-first century\, culminating in the Maidan uprising of 2014 and the escalation that led to war. With the vivid narrative and character portrayals that made All the Shah’s Men a classic\, Stephen Kinzer reveals the backstory of today’s conflict: the last great untold spy-versus-spy story of our time.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/stephen-kinzer-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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