Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes musician, activist, and bestselling author BILLY BRAGG for a discussion of his latest book, The Three Dimensions of Freedom. He will be joined in conversation by renowned legal scholar CASS R. SUNSTEIN. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities. About The Three Dimensions of Freedom We live in a world where […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store and WBUR welcome renowned historian and writer JILL LEPORE for the paperback release of her New York Times bestselling, critically acclaimed book, These Truths: A History of the United States. She will be joined in conversation by award-winning host of NPR's "Here and Now," ROBIN YOUNG. About These Truths Widely hailed for its […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes Instagram poet sensation and Harvard sophomore CAROLINE KAUFMAN—aka @poeticpoison—for a discussion of her new collection, When the World Didn't End. About When the World Didn't End When the World Didn’t End is a vivid account of trying to find a path forward while reckoning with the pain of the past, embracing […]
Find out more »In this collection of hilarious and poignant essays (including his acclaimed New York Times piece “What if I Bombed at My Own Wedding?”), Josh celebrates a life of good intentions—and mixed results. Whether he’s adopting a dog from a suspicious stranger, mitigating a disastrous road trip, or trying MDMA for the first (and only) time, […]
Find out more »Maureen Stanton presents Body Leaping Backward, her haunting and beautifully drawn story of a self-destructive girlhood, of a Massachusetts town and a nation overwhelmed in a time of change, and of how life-altering a glimpse of a world bigger than the one we come from can be. “A blazingly important memoir about the possibility of […]
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.