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November 27, 2018
David A. Kaplan
presents The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution -
October 19, 2018
Jabari Asim
discusses We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival with Adrian Walker -
October 1, 2018
Sarah Smarsh
presents Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth -
September 13, 2018
Soraya Chemaly
discusses Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger with Jaclyn Friedman -
August 15, 2018
Roy Scranton
discusses We're Doomed. Now What? Essays on War and Climate Change with Andrew Bacevich -
June 11, 2018
Howard Bryant
presents The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism -
February 26, 2018
Fifty Years Since MLK
with Brandon M. Terry, Tommie Shelby, Elizabeth Hinton, and Cornel West -
November 14, 2017
Slavoj Žižek and Alenka Zupančič
discuss Incontinence of the Void and What IS Sex? with Mladen Dolar -
October 27, 2017
Worldwide Week with Transition Magazine
featuring Phanuel Antwi, David Chariandy, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Moses Kilolo, Danielle Legros Georges, Enzo Silon Surin, and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma -
September 7, 2017
Vanessa Grigoriadis
discusses Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus -
March 22, 2017
Chris Hayes
discusses a Colony in a Nation with Jabari Asim, Frank Rudy Cooper, and Anthony Brooks -
February 22, 2017
Yuval Noah Harari
discusses Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow with Michael Sandel -
February 17, 2017
James R. Valcourt
discusses Systematic: How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine -
February 6, 2017
Gender and Color in Comics
A panel discussion featuring Mildred Louis, John Jennings, and Joel Christian Gill -
January 29, 2017
Melissa Fleming
discusses A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, & Survival -
January 9, 2017
Keramet Reiter
discusses 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement -
October 26, 2016
Sara Goldrick-Rab
discusses Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream -
October 24, 2016
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
discusses Growing Each Other Up: When Our Children Become Our Teachers -
August 29, 2016
An Evening with Pangyrus
Boston's new journal of literature, perspective, arts, and politics -
May 20, 2016
Malcolm K. Sparrow
discusses Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform -
April 8, 2016
Thomas Frank
discusses Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? -
February 19, 2016
Hillary L. Chute
discusses Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form -
January 29, 2016
Roberto G. Gonzales
discusses Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America -
December 9, 2015
An Evening of Poetry with Boston Review
featuring Mary Jo Bang, Lucie Brock-Broido, Stephen Burt, and Major Jackson -
October 8, 2015
Roberta Kaplan
discusses Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA with Eric Lander -
September 18, 2015
Daniel Geary and Benjamin Hedin
discuss today's civil rights movement with Eugene Rivers -
June 19, 2015
City by City
featuring Stephen Squibb and contributors Greg Afinogenov, Dan Albert, and Annie Wyman -
June 16, 2015
The Nation’s First 150 Years
featuring Katrina vanden Heuvel, D.D. Guttenplan, and Chloe Maxmin -
March 24, 2015
Barney Frank
discusses Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage -
September 3, 2014
George Marshall
discusses Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change -
May 2, 2014
The Opposite of Loneliness
Essays and stories by Marina Keegan presented by Anne Fadiman, Ratna Gill, and Luke Vargas -
September 28, 2012
Steven Johnson
discusses Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age -
September 28, 2012
Natalie Hopkinson
discusses Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City -
September 21, 2012
Daniel Kantstroom
discusses Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora -
October 18, 2011
Ron Suskind
discusses Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President -
March 4, 2011
Maya Jasanoff
discusses Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
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December 20, 2013
Don’t Watch This If You Are a Bookseller’s Cousin or Mom
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September 22, 2011
Minimum Paige: A Harvard Book Store Comic Anthology
A project this heroic could only be accomplished by the most dynamic of duos. -
September 16, 2011
Lucy the Wonder-Pup Picks the Booker
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January 21, 2011
HBTV Presents: Jurassic Books
A short film that ponders the possibilities of a large scale book printing robot... -
January 14, 2011
HBTV Is On The Air!
Cambridge's only local, fictional television station that's based out of an independent book store. -
September 8, 2010
Carole
recommends Wrestling with Moses and The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome professor and prize-winning short story author VIET THANH NGUYEN for a reading from his debut novel, The Sympathizer.
A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.
Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. His stories have appeared in Best New American Voices, TriQuarterly, Narrative, and the Chicago Tribune and he is the author of the academic book Race and Resistance. He teaches English and American Studies at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.