CORNEL WEST discusses his book Black Prophetic Fire. Tickets are $5 and go on sale 9/30. Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells. West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across decades. He rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates and discusses…
Find out more »CORNEL WEST discusses his book Black Prophetic Fire. Tickets are $5 and go on sale 9/30. Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells. West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across decades. He rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates and discusses…
Find out more »CORNEL WEST discusses his book Black Prophetic Fire. Tickets are $5 and go on sale 9/30. Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells. West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across decades. He rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates and discusses…
Find out more »CORNEL WEST discusses his book Black Prophetic Fire. Tickets are $5 and go on sale 9/30. Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells. West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across decades. He rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates and discusses…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize winner TRACY KIDDER, author of The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains, and entrepreneur PAUL ENGLISH for a discussion of Kidder's latest book, A Truck Full of Money: One Man’s Quest to Recover from Great Success, the inspiring story of Kayak.com and Lola founder Paul English. With the power of a consummate storyteller, Tracy Kidder casts a fresh, critical, and often humorous eye on the way new ideas and new money are reshaping our culture and…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act Ian McEwan and Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, for a discussion of McEwan's latest novel, Nutshell. "McEwan’s latest novel is short, smart, and narrated by an unborn baby. The narrator describes himself upside down in his mother’s womb, arms crossed, doing slow motion somersaults, almost full-term, wondering about the future. His mother listens to the radio, audiobooks, and podcasts, so just from listening he has acquired knowledge…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Tony-Award winning actor Alan Cumming, in conversation with WGBH reporter Jared Bowen, about his book, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures. Described by the New York Times as “a bawdy countercultural sprite” and named one of the most fun people in show business by Time magazine, Alan Cumming is a genuine quadruple threat—an internationally acclaimed, award-winning star of stage, television, and film, as well as a New York Times best-selling author whose real-life vivacity,…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes PEN/Faulkner Award winner Ann Patchett for a reading from her latest novel, Commonwealth, the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. “. . . a funny, sad, and ultimately heart-wrenching family portrait . . . Patchett elegantly manages a varied cast of characters . . . at her peak in humor, humanity, and understanding people in challenging situations.” —Publishers Weekly Tickets to this event are $5 each and can be used toward the purchase…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes short story master GEORGE SAUNDERS—author of Pastoralia and Tenth of December, a finalist for the National Book Award—for a discussion of his long-awaited first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. With Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is an experience unlike any other—an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward…
Find out more »Cambridge Forum welcomes KRISTA TIPPETT for a discussion of her book Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. Tippett is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York Times–bestselling author. In 2014, she received the National Humanities Medal at the White House for "thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human existence." She is the host of the public radio program and podcast On Being and Curator of the Civil Conversations Project. In Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned…
Find out more »NOAM CHOMSKY is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic, income inequality. Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. CHOMSKY comes to the First Parish Church in Cambridge to speak with AMY GOODMAN in an event sponsored by Harvard Book Store. Requiem for the American Dream is…
Find out more »Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy’s birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK’s most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures—including Senator Elizabeth Warren, David McCullough, Kofi Annan, and the Dalai Lama—and edited by JFK’s nephew Stephen Kennedy Smith and renowned historian Douglas Brinkley. Combined with over seven hundred documentary photos, it tells the story, in words and pictures, of JFK’s life and presidency, and depicts…
Find out more »Join SWANEE HUNT at Harvard Bookstore for a discussion of her book Rwandan Women Rising - the story of the women who found power and peace after devastating violence. In the spring of 1994, the tiny African nation of Rwanda was ripped apart by a genocide that left nearly a million dead. Neighbors attacked neighbors. Family members turned against their own. After the violence subsided, Rwanda's women—drawn by the necessity of protecting their families—carved out unlikely new roles as visionary pioneers, creating…
Find out more »Harvard Bookstore welcomes ROXANE GAY at First Parish Church. Gay, the bestselling author of Bad Feminist, An Untamed State, and Difficult Women, will be presenting her latest book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. This event is ticketed, and includes a book signing.
Find out more »Those who grew up reading Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian will take much interest in SHERMAN ALEXIE's newest book. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is a searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author. Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome the Alexie for a discussion of his raw, angry, funny, profane, and tender account of his adolescence. Doors will open at 6:30
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, bestselling and acclaimed author of the six-volume novel My Struggle, and literary critic JAMES WOOD for a discussion of Knausgaard's latest book, Autumn—the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons. Boston University's WILLIAM PIERCE, author of Reality Hunger: On Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle, will provide the evening's introductions. Autumn begins with a letter Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter, showing her what to expect of the world. He describes with acute sensitivity…
Find out more »This is a must-see for all literature lovers. Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author STEPHEN GREENBLATT for a discussion of his latest book, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very “real” to millions of people even in the…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes Nobel Prize–winning novelist ORHAN PAMUK and Harvard professor of folklore and mythology MARIA TATAR for a discussion Pamuk's latest novel, The Red-Haired Woman—a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two…
Find out more »Was Leonardo da Vinci history’s most creative genius? Was he also a Florentine spy in foreign courts? Find out when Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated writer and journalist WALTER ISAACSON—author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin—for a discussion of his latest biography: Leonardo da Vinci. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities. Tickets: $5 for only entrance into the event itself; $34.75 for the book & entrance into the event. Please purchase your tickets online.
Find out more »The Gurdjieff teaching is not, and has never presented itself as a religion. It has no creed, no demand for faith in things unseen. It is strictly about what Gurdjieff called work on oneself: a search toward self-knowledge and presence to oneself and the world. But then, it speaks of a living cosmos in which we human beings have the obligation, insofar as possible, to "lighten the sorrows of His Endlessness." There must be a link, then, between the personal…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome acclaimed writer and Georgetown professor MICHAEL ERIC DYSON for a discussion of his latest book, What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America. Tickets- $26.25 (online only, book included); $5.00 without the book.
Find out more »Harvard Bookstore welcomes GARY SHTEYNGART as he presents his latest novel, Lake Success. Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old son’s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seema—a driven first-generation American who craved…
Find out more »Cambridge Forum welcomes DR. WALTER C. WILLETT, NINA GHEIHMAN, TRUMAN FRENCH, and TUCKER PFORZHEIMER for a panel discussion on the latest eating trends in America. What does The Lancet say in its recent report, 'Food in the Anthropocene," about healthy diets from sustainable food systems? Join the discussion on the future of food. Learn more about the event here. Copies of Dr. Walter C. Willett's latest book, Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating, will…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes bestselling author and influential organizational psychologist ADAM GRANT and his wife ALLISON SWEET GRANT on tour for their new co-authored picture book, The Gift Inside the Box. They will be joined in conversation by DANIEL GILBERT, renowned psychologist, bestselling author, and Harvard professor. Are you a giver or a taker? How about your children? With Give and Take, Grant smashed the “greed is good” myth and revealed how generosity can revolutionize the way we approach work.…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporters JODI KANTOR and MEGAN TWOHEY for a discussion of their new co-authored book, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. They will be joined in conversation by author, actor, and social justice humanitarian ASHLEY JUDD. About She Said For many years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women. Rumors of wrongdoing had long circulated. But in 2017, when Jodi Kantor…
Find out more »Cambridge Forum welcomes award-winning author and journalist CHRISTOPHER LEONARD for a discussion of his latest book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America. About Kochland The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food, to the chemicals that make our pipes, to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers, to the Wall Street trading in all…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes NAOMI KLEIN—award-winning, internationally bestselling author and journalist—for a discussion of her latest book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. She will be joined by JULIET B. SCHOR, Boston College professor and former Guggenheim fellow. This event is co-sponsored by 350 Mass, Cambridge Forum, The Intercept, The Leap, and Sunrise. About On Fire For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes ANDREW MCAFEE, bestselling author and a principal researcher for MIT, for a discussion of his latest book, More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next. Please Note This event takes place at First Church Cambridge on Garden St, not to be confused with First Parish Church on Mass Ave. About More from Less Throughout history, the only way for humanity to grow was by degrading the Earth:…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes BILL BRYSON—the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything—for a discussion of his latest book, The Body: A Guide for Occupants. About The Body Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body—how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes JEANETTE WINTERSON—author of the beloved Oranges are Not the Only Fruit—for a discussion of her latest novel, Frankissstein: A Love Story. About Frankissstein Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store welcomes SUSAN RICE—National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nations—for a discussion of her new memoir, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. She will be joined in conversation by renowned scholar, literary critic, and filmmaker HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. About Tough Love Mother, wife, scholar, diplomat, and fierce champion of American interests and values, Susan Rice powerfully connects the personal and the professional. Taught early, with tough…
Find out more »Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome LINDY WEST—critically acclaimed New York Timescolumnist and author of Shrill—for a reading from her latest book, The Witches are Coming. This event is co-sponsored by Pop Culture Positive. About The Witches Are Coming THIS IS A WITCH HUNT. WE'RE WITCHES, AND WE'RE HUNTING YOU. From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In…
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 We Are Indivisible Shortly after Trump’s election, two outraged former congressional staffers wrote and posted a tactical guide to resisting the Trump agenda. This Google…
Find out more »Pre-sale tickets (book included) on sale December 5 General entrance tickets on sale December 19 at 9am $29.75 (book included) - On Sale December 5, 2019 $8.00 (general entrance) - On Sale December 19, 2019 Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated author WILLIAM GIBSON—author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Phillip K. Dick Award–winning classic, Neuromancer—for a discussion of his latest novel, Agency. About Agency Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a…
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.