The Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, discusses Yoko Tadawa's The Emissary, translated by Margaret Mitsutani—a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality, and winner of the 2018 National Book Award in Translated Literature. About The Emissary Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.