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 […]
Find out more »Activist, author, and educator Angela Davis, who is known internationally for her work to combat oppression in the U.S. and abroad will present a keynote lecture on activism, popular music, and culture. Davis has conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race, gender, and imprisonment. She draws upon her own experiences in the early […]
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.