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May 4, 2023
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August 20, 2022
Love and Pride: Bookstore Romance Day Panel #2
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Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan
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May 31, 2022
Lucasta Miller
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May 13, 2022
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman
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May 5, 2022
Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta
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April 22, 2022
Michael Schur
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February 28, 2022
Marie Lily Cerat, Patrick Sylvain, Jalene Tamerat
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February 7, 2022
Florence Williams
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January 27, 2022
Leonard Mlodinow
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January 16, 2022
Alexander Rehding and Daniel K.L. Chua
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November 12, 2021
Shayda Kafai
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November 12, 2021
Deva R. Woodly
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November 11, 2021
Joan Nockels Wilson
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October 19, 2021
Askold Melnyczuk and Gene Kwak
present The Man Who Would Not Bow and Go Home, Ricky! with Nina MacLaughlin -
October 19, 2021
George Howe Colt, Paul Elie, Megan Marshall, Michelle Nijhuis, and Stacey Vanek Smith
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October 15, 2021
David Hajdu and John Carey
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October 14, 2021
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Ryan Conrad, Berend McKenzie, Miranda Recht
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October 7, 2021
Joshua Bennett, Marwa Helal, Ladan Osman, and Xandria Phillips
present Owed, Invasive species, Exiles of Eden, and HULL -
September 30, 2021
In the Kitchen: Remembering Julia with Your Favorite Chefs
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September 23, 2021
Farah Jasmine Griffin
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September 15, 2021
Edward Glaeser and David Cutler
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June 15, 2021
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
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June 11, 2021
Jesse McCarthy
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June 4, 2021
Richard Flanagan and Jim Shepard
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May 27, 2021
Jacqueline Rose
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May 21, 2021
Kristin Harmel and Jennifer Rosner
present The Book of Lost Names and The Yellow Bird Sings -
May 21, 2021
Sy Montgomery and Suzanne Simard
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May 14, 2021
Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block
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May 10, 2021
Maggie Shipstead and J. Courtney Sullivan
present Great Circle and Friends and Strangers -
April 29, 2021
L.S. Halprin, Iain Boal, and Dick Russell
present An Essay in the History of the Radical Sensibility in America -
April 23, 2021
Barbara Cantalupo and Lori Harrison-Kahan
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April 9, 2021
Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, and Philip G. Schrag
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April 2, 2021
Steven Weinberg and Andrew Strominger
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March 19, 2021
Brandon L. Garrett
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March 16, 2021
Lolita in the Afterlife
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March 11, 2021
Writing our Ancestors with Boston Review
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February 18, 2021
Judge Jed S. Rakoff
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February 1, 2021
Robert J. Lefkowitz and Randy Hall
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January 14, 2021
Jeanne Theoharis and Pam Horowitz
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January 7, 2021
Megan Alpert and José Angel Araguz
present An Empty Pot's Darkness and The Animal at Your Side -
December 17, 2020
Katie Mack and Kim Stanley Robinson
present The End of Everything and The Ministry for the Future -
November 12, 2020
Jerald Walker and Robert Atwan
present How to Make a Slave and Other Essays and The Best American Essays 2020 -
November 5, 2020
What Just Happened: Writers Discuss the Post-Election Moment
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October 23, 2020
Deborah Willis, John Stauffer, and Sarah Lewis
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October 19, 2020
Claire Messud and André Aciman
present Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write and Find Me -
September 28, 2020
Felton Earls and Mary Carlson
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August 22, 2020
Bookstore Romance Day Panel
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July 31, 2020
Alexander Keyssar
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July 30, 2020
Sara Faith Alterman
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July 24, 2020
Adrian Tomine
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July 12, 2020
Where Do We Go From Here: A Fundraiser for Black Lives
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June 8, 2020
Megha Majumdar and Sue Monk Kidd
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May 27, 2020
Heather Cox Richardson
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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
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August 15, 2018
Roy Scranton
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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
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November 14, 2017
Slavoj Žižek and Alenka Zupančič
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October 27, 2017
Worldwide Week with Transition Magazine
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September 7, 2017
Vanessa Grigoriadis
discusses Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus -
March 22, 2017
Chris Hayes
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February 22, 2017
Yuval Noah Harari
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February 17, 2017
James R. Valcourt
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February 6, 2017
Gender and Color in Comics
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January 29, 2017
Melissa Fleming
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January 9, 2017
Keramet Reiter
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October 26, 2016
Sara Goldrick-Rab
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October 24, 2016
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
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August 29, 2016
An Evening with Pangyrus
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May 20, 2016
Malcolm K. Sparrow
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April 8, 2016
Thomas Frank
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February 19, 2016
Hillary L. Chute
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January 29, 2016
Roberto G. Gonzales
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December 9, 2015
An Evening of Poetry with Boston Review
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October 8, 2015
Roberta Kaplan
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Daniel Geary and Benjamin Hedin
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June 19, 2015
City by City
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June 16, 2015
The Nation’s First 150 Years
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March 24, 2015
Barney Frank
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September 3, 2014
George Marshall
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May 2, 2014
The Opposite of Loneliness
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September 28, 2012
Steven Johnson
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September 28, 2012
Natalie Hopkinson
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September 21, 2012
Daniel Kantstroom
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October 18, 2011
Ron Suskind
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March 4, 2011
Maya Jasanoff
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Harold McGee
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome HAROLD MCGEE—noted food writer and author of On Food and Cooking—for a discussion of his new book Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells. He was joined in conversation by DAVID WEITZ—Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University.
From Harold McGee, James Beard Award-winning author and leading expert on the science of food and cooking, comes an extensive exploration of the long-overlooked world of smell. In Nose Dive, McGee takes us on a sensory adventure, from the sulfurous nascent earth more than four billion years ago, to the fruit-filled Tian Shan mountain range north of the Himalayas, to the keyboard of your laptop, where trace notes of phenol and formaldehyde escape between the keys. We'll sniff the ordinary (wet pavement and cut grass) and the extraordinary (ambergris and truffles), the delightful (roses and vanilla) and the challenging (swamplands and durians). We'll smell one another. We'll smell ourselves.
Through it all, McGee familiarizes us with the actual bits of matter that we breathe in—the molecules that trigger our perceptions, that prompt the citrusy smells of coriander and beer and the medicinal smells of daffodils and sea urchins. And like everything in the physical world, molecules have histories. Many of the molecules that we smell every day existed long before any creature was around to smell them—before there was even a planet for those creatures to live on. Beginning with the origins of those molecules in interstellar space, McGee moves onward through the smells of our planet, the air and the oceans, the forest and the meadows and the city, all the way to the smells of incense, perfume, wine, and food.
Here is a story of the world, of every smell under our collective nose. A work of astounding scholarship and originality, Nose Dive distills the science behind the smells and translates it, as only McGee can, into an accessible and entertaining guide. Incorporating the latest insights of biology and chemistry, and interweaving them with personal observations, he reveals how our sense of smell has the power to expose invisible, intangible details of our material world and trigger in us feelings that are the very essence of being alive.
Harold McGee studied at Caltech and Yale, and since 1980 has been writing about the science of food and cooking. He’s the author of the award-winning book On Food and Cooking, a visiting lecturer in Harvard University’s course “From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science,” and a former columnist for the New York Times. He’s been named food writer of the year by Bon Appétit magazine and to the TIME 100, an annual list of the world’s most influential people. His latest book is Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells. It began as a project about the flavors of food and drink, but expanded over the course of a decade to encompass the smells of the material world at large, which flavors often echo.
David Weitz received his PhD in physics from Harvard University and then joined Exxon Research and Engineering Company, where he worked for nearly 18 years. He then became a professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania and moved to Harvard at the end of the last millennium as professor of physics and applied physics. He leads a group studying soft matter science with a focus on materials science, biophysics and microfluidics. He co-developed and co-teaches the popular Harvard science course, Science of Cooking: From Soft Matter Science to Haute Cuisine.