Harvard Book Store and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics welcome ARTHUR ISAK APPLBAUM—Adams Professor of Democratic Values at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government—for a discussion of his new book, Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World. About Legitimacy What makes a government legitimate? The dominant view is that public officials have the […]
Find out more »The 43rd annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to Boston's Hynes Convention Center November 15-17, 2019. The offerings are wide and diverse from over 130 dealers from the United States, Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Russia, and Argentina who will exhibit and sell rare, collectible and antiquarian books, illuminated manuscripts, autographs, maps, […]
Find out more »$25 Friday opening night, Free Saturday & Sunday! One of the oldest and most respected antiquarian book shows in the country, the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to Boston's Back Bay for it's 43rd year. Featuring the fascinating collections and rare treasures of more than 130 from the U.S., England, Canada, Netherlands, France, Germany, […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes critic, translator, and Walter Benjamin scholar HOWARD EILAND for a discussion commemorating the 20th anniversary of Harvard University Press's publication of The Arcades Project. He will be joined in conversation by LINDSAY WATERS, the Benjamin editor at Harvard University Press. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities. About The Arcades Project […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes LEAH GREENBURG and EZRA LEVIN—former congressional staffers and co-directors of the grassroots organizing movement Indivisible—for a discussion of their new co-authored book, We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump. They will be joined in conversation by MARSHALL GANZ, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. About […]
Find out more »Tommy Pico’s Feed is the fourth book in the Teebs tetralogy. It’s an epistolary recipe for the main character, a poem of nourishment, and a jaunty walk through New York’s High Line park, with the lines, stanzas, paragraphs, dialogue, and registers approximating the park’s cultivated gardens of wildness. Carmen Giménez Smith’s Be Recorder offers readers […]
Find out more »The Breakwater Reading Series is Boston’s inter-MFA program showcase, featuring student writers from Boston University, Emerson College, Lesley University, and the University of Massachusetts-Boston performing the best in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Six fresh voices read in each installment of this popular series, presented by Breakwater Review and UMass Boston. The monthly event is hosted […]
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.