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June 29, 2020

P.J.E. Peebles

presents Cosmology’s Century
June 26, 2020

Roddy Doyle

discusses Love with John Freeman
June 25, 2020

Martha McPhee

discusses An Elegant Woman with Laura McPhee
June 23, 2020

Paul Lisicky and Deborah A. Lott

present Later and Don't Go Crazy Without Me
June 22, 2020

Donovan Moore

presents What Stars Are Made Of
June 19, 2020

Michael E. Sawyer

discusses Black Minded with Flores A. Forbes
June 18, 2020

David Livingstone Smith

discusses On Inhumanity with John Kaag
June 17, 2020

E. Dolores Johnson

discusses Say I'm Dead with Sonya Larson
June 16, 2020

Mary Morris

discusses All the Way to the Tigers with Christina Baker Kline
June 12, 2020

Adam Goodman

discusses The Deportation Machine with Francisco Goldman
June 11, 2020

Walter Johnson

discusses The Broken Heart of America with De Nichols
June 10, 2020

Kenneth R. Rosen and Steve Mentz

present Bulletproof Vest and Ocean
June 9, 2020

Guy P. Raffa

discusses Dante's Bones with Matthew Pearl
June 8, 2020

Megha Majumdar and Sue Monk Kidd

discuss A Burning and The Book of Longings with Jordan Pavlin
June 5, 2020

Wayétu Moore

discusses The Dragons, the Giant, the Women with DeWanda Wise
June 4, 2020

John Grisham

presents Camino Winds
June 4, 2020

Nina MacLaughlin

discusses Summer Solstice with Ben Shattuck
June 3, 2020

Bernice Lerner

discusses All the Horrors of War with Michael Zank
June 2, 2020

Vincent Brown

discusses Tacky's Revolt with Julian Lucas
May 29, 2020

Meredith Talusan

discusses Fairest with Garrard Conley
May 28, 2020

Stephanie Danler

discusses Stray with Lisa Taddeo
May 27, 2020

Heather Cox Richardson

discusses How the South Won the Civil War with Lindsay M. Chervinsky
May 26, 2020

Elliot Ackerman

discusses Red Dress in Black and White with Matt Gallagher
May 22, 2020

Lawrence Wright

presents The End of October
May 21, 2020

Mario Livio

presents Galileo
May 20, 2020

Stephen Haff

discusses Kid Quixotes with James Wood
May 19, 2020

Maggie Doherty

discusses The Equivalents with Kate Bolick
May 18, 2020

Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska

present Collaborative Society
May 15, 2020

Joanne Ramos

discusses The Farm with Mona Awad
May 14, 2020

Dr. Vivek H. Murthy

discusses Together with Barbara Bush
May 13, 2020

Joanna Hershon

discusses St. Ivo with Joanna Rakoff
May 12, 2020

Noah Feldman

discusses The Arab Winter with Malika Zeghal
May 11, 2020

Robert B. Reich

discusses The System with Michael J. Sandel
May 8, 2020

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

discusses The Mountains Sing with Viet Thanh Nguyen
May 7, 2020

Krithika Varagur

discusses The Call with Karen Elliott House
May 6, 2020

Rebecca Henderson

discusses Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire with Paul Solman
May 5, 2020

Lauren Sandler

discusses This Is All I Got with John Williams
May 4, 2020

Anna Solomon

discusses The Book of V with Joanna Rakoff
May 1, 2020

Melissa R. Klapper

discusses Ballet Class with Pamela Nadell
April 29, 2020

Bess Kalb

discusses Nobody Will Tell You This But Me with Mike Birbiglia
April 28, 2020

Sharon Salzberg

discusses Real Happiness with Caroline Welch
April 27, 2020

Annie Finch

discusses Choice Words with Desiree Cooper and Kristen Ghodsee
April 23, 2020

Emily Gould

discusses Perfect Tunes with Miranda Popkey
April 21, 2020

Bonnie Tsui

discusses Why We Swim with Caroline Paul
April 20, 2020

Neil Shubin

discusses Some Assembly Required
April 16, 2020

Michael Arceneaux

discusses I Don't Want to Die Poor with Rembert Browne
April 14, 2020

Emily St. John Mandel

discusses The Glass Hotel with Nina MacLaughlin
April 13, 2020

Jennifer Steinhauer

discusses The Firsts with Katharine Q. Seeley
April 7, 2020

John Kaag

discusses Sick Souls, Healthy Minds with Megan Marshall
April 2, 2020

Alex Beam

discusses Broken Glass with Witold Rybczynski
January 31, 2020

Ezra Klein

discusses Why We're Polarized with Lawrence Lessig
January 17, 2020

Bob Garfield

discusses American Manifesto with Arun Rath
October 10, 2019

Naomi Klein

discusses On Fire with Juliet B. Schor
September 18, 2019

Josh Campbell

discusses Crossfire Hurricane with Juliette Kayyem
September 10, 2019

Tatiana Schlossberg

presents Inconspicuous Consumption
May 20, 2019

John Waters

discusses Mr. Know-It-All with Alyisa Abbott
May 13, 2019

Rachel Louise Snyder

discusses No Visible Bruises with Suzanne Dubus
May 7, 2019

Peter Hessler

discusses The Buried with Matthew Bell
April 26, 2019

Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay

present Democratic Discord in Schools
April 17, 2019

Bill McKibben

presents Falter
March 29, 2019

Katherine M. Marino

presents Feminism for the Americas
March 13, 2019

David Sloan Wilson

presents This View of Life
February 7, 2019

Marlon James

presents Black Leopard, Red Wolf
February 6, 2019

Kim McLarin

presents Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life
February 1, 2019

Lawrence Lessig

presents America, Compromised
December 10, 2018

D. M. Aderibigbe

presents How the End First Showed
November 27, 2018

David A. Kaplan

presents The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution
November 9, 2018

Ieva Jusionyte

presents Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border
October 19, 2018

Jabari Asim

discusses We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival with Adrian Walker
October 12, 2018

Jason Stanley

discusses How Fascism Works with Elizabeth Hinton
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
August 7, 2018

Laura van den Berg

discusses The Third Hotel with Paul Yoon
July 25, 2018

Nell Painter

discusses Old in Art School with Sarah Lewis
July 13, 2018

Jeff Biggers

presents Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition
June 11, 2018

Howard Bryant

presents The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
June 4, 2018

Victor J. Seidler

presents Making Sense of Brexit
May 14, 2018

Hanna Holborn Gray

discusses An Academic Life with Jane Kamensky
March 23, 2018

Virginia Eubanks

discusses Automating Inequality with Ethan Zuckerman
February 27, 2018

Maryn McKenna

discusses Big Chicken with Nicholas Evans
February 26, 2018

Fifty Years Since MLK

with Brandon M. Terry, Tommie Shelby, Elizabeth Hinton, and Cornel West
February 20, 2018

Steve Coll

presents Directorate S
February 6, 2018

Angie Thomas

discusses The Hate U Give with Robin Young
January 25, 2018

Patrick Sharkey

discusses Uneasy Peace with William Julius Wilson
December 11, 2017

Tina Brown

discusses The Vanity Fair Diaries with Meredith Goldstein
November 30, 2017

Andrea J. Ritchie

discusses Invisible No More with Paul Butler
November 14, 2017

Slavoj Žižek and Alenka Zupančič

discuss Incontinence of the Void and What IS Sex? with Mladen Dolar
November 6, 2017

Khizr Khan

discusses An American Family with Martha Minow
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
October 5, 2017

Armistead Maupin

presents Logical Family: A Memoir
October 4, 2017

Masha Gessen

discusses The Future Is History with Alexandra Vacroux
September 29, 2017

Kathryn Sikkink

discusses Evidence for Hope
September 8, 2017

Salman Rushdie

discusses The Golden House with Homi K. Bhabha
September 7, 2017

Vanessa Grigoriadis

discusses Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus
August 17, 2017

Paul Yoon

reads from The Mountain: Stories
June 28, 2017

Haroon Moghul

presents How to Be a Muslim: An American Story
June 20, 2017

Arundhati Roy

reads from The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
May 15, 2017

Guy Delisle

discusses Hostage with Hillary L. Chute
May 14, 2017

Stephen Kennedy Smith and Douglas Brinkley

discuss JFK: A Vision for America
April 24, 2017

Noam Chomsky

discusses Requiem for the American Dream with Amy Goodman
April 21, 2017

Susanna Siegel

discusses The Rationality of Perception
March 31, 2017

Bernie Sanders

discusses Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
March 22, 2017

Chris Hayes

discusses a Colony in a Nation with Jabari Asim, Frank Rudy Cooper, and Anthony Brooks
March 21, 2017

Ganesh Sitaraman

discusses The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution
February 24, 2017

Joi Ito and Jeff Howe

discuss Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
February 24, 2017

Julie L. Rose

discusses Free Time
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 30, 2017

Poems for Political Disaster

an evening of readings from a Boston Review chapbook
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
December 12, 2016

George Scialabba

discusses Low Dishonest Decades with Randall Kennedy
November 11, 2016

Rae Armantrout and Fanny Howe

present Partly and The Needle's Eye
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
September 25, 2016

Alan Cumming

discusses You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams with Jared Bowen
September 21, 2016

Ian McEwan

discusses Nutshell: A Novel with Steven Pinker
September 12, 2016

Lawrence Wright

discusses The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
August 29, 2016

An Evening with Pangyrus

Boston's new journal of literature, perspective, arts, and politics
August 3, 2016

Jeffrey Toobin

discusses American Heiress with David Boeri
August 1, 2016

Elaine C. Kamarck

discusses Why Presidents Fail And How They Can Succeed Again
July 21, 2016

Rodney Dietert

discusses The Human Superorganism
July 18, 2016

Larry Olmsted

discusses Real Food/Fake Food
June 29, 2016

Janna Levin

discusses Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
June 13, 2016

Ian Frazier

discusses Hogs Wild
June 10, 2016

Yaa Gyasi

reads from Homegoing
June 9, 2016

Chuck Klosterman

discusses But What If We're Wrong?
June 3, 2016

Negin Farsad

discusses How to Make White People Laugh
May 20, 2016

Malcolm K. Sparrow

discusses Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform
May 15, 2016

Nathaniel Philbrick

discusses Valiant Ambition
May 13, 2016

Sidney Blumenthal

discusses A Self-Made Man
May 10, 2016

Lucy Kalanithi

discusses When Breath Becomes Air with Neel Shah
May 4, 2016

Angela Duckworth

discusses Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance with Amy Cuddy
April 24, 2016

Diane Rehm

discusses On My Own with Robin Young
April 8, 2016

Thomas Frank

discusses Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
April 6, 2016

Dan Lyons

discusses Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
March 31, 2016

Janette Sadik-Khan

discusses Streetfight with Jerold Kayden
March 17, 2016

Shirin Ebadi

discusses Until We Are Free with Swanee Hunt
February 26, 2016

Catherine J. Ross

discusses Lessons in Censorship
February 23, 2016

E.J. Dionne Jr.

discusses Why the Right Went Wrong
February 19, 2016

Hillary L. Chute

discusses Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form
February 5, 2016

Premilla Nadasen

discusses Household Workers Unite
January 29, 2016

Roberto G. Gonzales

discusses Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America
January 28, 2016

Justin Peters

discusses The Idealist with John Summers
January 12, 2016

Elizabeth Strout

discusses My Name is Lucy Barton with Brock Clarke
December 9, 2015

An Evening of Poetry with Boston Review

featuring Mary Jo Bang, Lucie Brock-Broido, Stephen Burt, and Major Jackson
December 7, 2015

Ryan Britt

discusses Luke Skywalker Can't Read: And Other Geeky Truths
November 6, 2015

Stephen Breyer

discusses The Court and the World with David Gergen
November 4, 2015

Gloria Steinem

discusses My Life on the Road with Jamia Wilson
October 22, 2015

Patrick J. Kennedy

discusses A Common Struggle
October 8, 2015

Roberta Kaplan

discusses Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA with Eric Lander
September 21, 2015

Salman Rushdie

discusses Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
September 18, 2015

Daniel Geary and Benjamin Hedin

discuss today's civil rights movement with Eugene Rivers
September 17, 2015

Jane McGonigal

discusses SuperBetter with Scot Osterweil
September 11, 2015

Leonard Cassuto

discusses The Graduate School Mess
September 9, 2015

Lee Child

discusses Make Me with Stephen King
September 2, 2015

Ari Berman

discusses Give Us the Ballot
September 1, 2015

Sylvie Tissot

discusses Good Neighbors with Jim Vrabel
August 6, 2015

Matthew Battles

discusses Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word
June 30, 2015

Jessica Fechtor

discusses Stir with Kathy Gunst
June 26, 2015

Jonathan Galassi

reads from Muse: A Novel with Helene Atwan
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
June 4, 2015

Jane Smiley

reads from Early Warning: A Novel
May 4, 2015

Viet Thanh Nguyen

reads from The Sympathizer
April 20, 2015

Joseph Stiglitz

discusses The Great Divide with Robert Kuttner
April 17, 2015

Meb Keflezighi

discusses Meb for Mortals
April 13, 2015

Peter Singer

discusses The Most Good You Can Do
March 24, 2015

Barney Frank

discusses Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
March 16, 2015

Nina MacLaughlin

discusses Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter
March 13, 2015

Gabriella Blum

discusses The Future of Violence
March 4, 2015

Bruce Schneier

discusses Data and Goliath
February 13, 2015

David Axelrod

discusses Believer: My Forty Years in Politics with David Gergen
February 12, 2015

Paul Fischer

discusses A Kim Jong-Il Production
February 6, 2015

Laurence Ralph

discusses Renegade Dreams
February 5, 2015

Scott McCloud

discusses The Sculptor with Hillary L. Chute
January 30, 2015

Nan Levinson

discusses War Is Not a Game
January 22, 2015

Michael Bronski

discusses Considering Hate
January 13, 2015

Nazila Fathi

discusses The Lonely War
September 12, 2014

Jason Segel

performs "Dracula's Lament"
September 5, 2014

Marc Abrahams

discusses This is Improbable Too
September 5, 2014

Jeffrey T. Schnapp & Matthew Battles

discuss The Library Beyond the Book
September 3, 2014

George Marshall

discusses Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
July 29, 2014

Mark Epstein

reads from The Trauma of Everyday Life
July 17, 2014

David Rose

discusses Enchanted Objects
July 16, 2014

Hillary Rodham Clinton

signs Hard Choices
June 25, 2014

Michael Waldman

discusses The Second Amendment: A Biography
June 19, 2014

Suzanna Danuta Walters

discusses The Tolerance Trap
June 17, 2014

Jack Devine

discusses Good Hunting with Joseph Finder
June 12, 2014

Linda Hill & Emily Truelove

discuss Collective Genius
June 10, 2014

Laurence Tribe

discusses Uncertain Justice
May 27, 2014

Timothy Geithner

discusses Stress Test with David Gergen
May 21, 2014

Aneesh Chopra

discusses Innovative State
May 15, 2014

Glenn Greenwald

discusses No Place to Hide with Noam Chomsky
May 12, 2014

Michael Pollan

discusses Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
May 9, 2014

Sam Kean

discusses The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
May 2, 2014

The Opposite of Loneliness

Essays and stories by Marina Keegan presented by Anne Fadiman, Ratna Gill, and Luke Vargas
April 29, 2014

Ramachandra Guha

discusses Gandhi Before India with Pratap Bhanu Mehta
April 24, 2014

Elizabeth Warren

discusses A Fighting Chance
April 18, 2014

Thomas Piketty

discusses Capital in the Twenty-First Century
April 10, 2014

Annalee Newitz

discusses Scatter, Adapt, and Remember with Seth Mnookin
April 1, 2014

Sarah Lewis

discusses The Rise
March 19, 2014

Alan Lightman

discusses The Accidental Universe
March 14, 2014

David Sibley

discusses The Sibley Guide to Birds, 2nd Edition with Christopher Leahy
March 12, 2014

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

discusses Plato at the Googleplex
March 6, 2014

Peniel Joseph

discusses Stokely: A Life
February 26, 2014

Neil Swidey

discusses Trapped Under the Sea
February 25, 2014

danah boyd

discusses It's Complicated
February 20, 2014

Lawrence Buell

discusses The Dream of the Great American Novel
February 11, 2014

Ayesha Mattu & Nura Maznavi

present Salaam, Love with four of their contributers
February 7, 2014

Jennifer Senior

discusses All Joy and No Fun with Daniel Gilbert
February 7, 2014

Howard Eiland

discusses Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
February 3, 2014

Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee

discuss The Second Machine Age
January 31, 2014

Alex Myers

presents his novel Revolutionary
January 30, 2014

Scott Stossel

discusses My Age of Anxiety with Cullen Murphy
January 29, 2014

Michael Ignatieff

discusses Fire and Ashes
January 28, 2014

Isabel Allende

presents her novel Ripper
January 23, 2014

Gary Shteyngart

discusses his memoir Little Failure
January 9, 2014

Ishmael Beah

presents Radiance of Tomorrow
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 27, 2012

Junot Diaz

discusses This Is How You Lose Her
September 21, 2012

Daniel Kantstroom

discusses Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora
September 11, 2012

Bob Spitz

discusses Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
September 4, 2012

Theda Skocpol

discusses Obama and America's Political Future
November 4, 2011

Tom Brokaw

discusses The Time of Our Lives
October 29, 2011

Glenn Greenwald & Noam Chomsky

discuss With Liberty and Justice for Some
October 18, 2011

Ron Suskind

discusses Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
September 30, 2011

John Lithgow

discusses Drama: An Actor's Education
July 7, 2011

Jess Martin

discusses her memoir Open Eyed Sneeze, printed here at Harvard Book Store!
March 11, 2011

James Carroll

discusses Jerusalem, Jerusalem
March 10, 2011

Sean Dorrance Kelly

discusses All Things Shining
March 4, 2011

Maya Jasanoff

discusses Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

August 28, 2014

Staff Picks: Favorite Fiction

Our favorite fiction reads from this past summer.
August 22, 2014

HBS Ice Bucket Challenge

Watch Harvard Book Store take the Ice Bucket Challenge.
June 26, 2014

Kari

recommends Tuck Everlasting and The Thief of Always
May 6, 2014

Staff Picks: Books for Moms

What is our staff giving Mom for Mother's Day?
December 20, 2013

Don’t Watch This If You Are a Bookseller’s Cousin or Mom

What is our discerning staff giving for the holidays?
September 7, 2012

Carole

recommends The Jazz Standards
July 31, 2012

Kari

recommends Anno Dracula
July 6, 2012

Aaron

recommends The Plague
June 1, 2012

Jamie

recommends Darth Vader and Son
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

Can this adorable puppy predict the winner of the Man Booker Prize?
August 26, 2011

Suzanne

recommends The Forsyte Saga.
August 19, 2011

Kari

recommends Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
July 29, 2011

Craig

recommends Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas
July 2, 2011

Jon

recommends Super Sad True Love Story
June 3, 2011

Steve

recommends The Eyre Affair
May 27, 2011

Alex

recommends the Baseball Field Guide
May 20, 2011

Linden

recommends Doctor Zhivago
May 13, 2011

Ryan

recommends The Arctic Marauder
April 21, 2011

Mark

recommends The Fiery Trial and Rites of Spring
February 2, 2011

HBTV Presents: Don’t be an iPhoney

Buy where you shop.
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.
November 3, 2010

Rachel

recommends Let the Great World Spin
October 27, 2010

Mike

recommends Transit Maps of the World
October 20, 2010

Kari

recommends Love is the Higher Law
October 13, 2010

Lizzy

recommends Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
October 6, 2010

Lillian

recommends The Adderall Diaries
September 29, 2010

Geoff

recommends In Search of Lost Time
September 22, 2010

Frances

recommends The Annotated Secret Garden
September 15, 2010

Churchill

recommends Shades of Grey
September 8, 2010

Carole

recommends Wrestling with Moses and The Death and Life of Great American Cities
September 1, 2010

Andy

recommends The Book of the New Sun