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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. About Jewish Anti-Zionism A collection of texts illustrating the complex reasons why Jews have contested or rejected the Zionist ideal over more […]

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. About Canticle NATIONAL BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION * NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE […]

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). About Trigger Words Trigger Words examines how language in the United States has been manipulated and […]

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.  About Anatomy of Disintegration A leading political philosopher dissects the […]

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. About Max Bond The first biography of a preeminent postwar […]

Join us for our November Harvard Square Book Circle meeting! This month we're discussing Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. Don't forget each book we discuss is part of our featured Select 70 for frequent buyer members. The Book Circle is Harvard Book Store's monthly book club open for members of the community to meet and discuss a thoughtfully selected book. […]

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. About What Happened in Beulah A 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 […]

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. About Boiling Point From bestselling author Stephen Kinzer, the untold history of America’s secret seventy-five-year struggle in Ukraine that set the […]