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Books

Cartoonist Explores Stories of Veterans of the Battlefield—and the COVID ICU

November 16, 2023

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Adeena Sussman Releases new Jewish Cookbook, Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours

November 16, 2023

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LGBTQ+

Don’t Say Gay: Three Alumni Authors Speak Out on LGBTQ Book Bans

November 16, 2023

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Excerpt from Jonathan Eig’s Acclaimed New Biography, King: A Life

November 16, 2023

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Reading List: Baseball, Rock ’n’ Roll, Murder, and Intrigue

November 16, 2023

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Feedback

Feedback: Readers Weigh In on the US and the AR-15, Activism and BU Faculty, and Alum Author David Grann

November 16, 2023

Books

Meet Hatchet Girls, Just in Time for Halloween

October 16, 2023

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Books

White Shark Expert Greg Skomal’s New Book Is Part Science, Part Memoir

September 25, 2023

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Alumni

Proposed LGBTQ+ Library in Boston Would Be a First

September 18, 2023

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Books

Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder: Alum David Grann’s New Book, The Wager, Is a High-Seas Adventure

August 9, 2023

A composite image made up of two rows of four book covers. Covers of books are (from top to bottom, left to right): "The Commonplace Misfortunes Of Everyday Plants", "Every Other Weekend", "The Fun Widow’s Book Tour", "Mattress Makers", "Moma Goes To Paris In 1938: Building And Politicizing American Art", "The Ransomware Hunting Team", "The Ruins Of Woodman's Village", and "Secret Of The Storm: Land Of Dragons".

Books

Reading List: New Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by BU Alums

August 9, 2023

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Imagining a Postapocalyptic World Ravaged by Climate Change

August 8, 2023

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LGBTQ+

Alum’s New Memoir Chronicles Her Experience Coming Out at 38

June 7, 2023

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Books

He Wrote a Book to Help Kids Deal with ADHD Better than He Did

June 6, 2023

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Books

Reading List Winter–Spring 2023: New fiction, short stories, poetry, and a memoir by actor Geena Davis (CFA’79, Hon.’99)

March 27, 2023

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Books

Opening Doors: Emma Kalff (CAS’15) and Sandra Soto (Wheelock’16)

February 24, 2023

Lydia Moland (UNI’97,’97, GRS’02) says abolitionist Lydia Maria Child was “a devastatingly good arguer…. She was a very, very powerful thinker and writer.” Photo by James Johnson

Alumni

Profiling a 19th-Century Woman’s “Radical American Life”

November 14, 2022

Collage: 12 Book covers arranged in two rows of six. Top row covers: "BUILD ME A CITY: SECRETS, LIES, AND LOVE IN BARON HAUSSMANN'S PARIS", "CLASSIC BASEBALL: TIMELESS TALES, IMMORTAL MOMENTS", "DELIBERATELY DIVIDED: INSIDE THE CONTROVERSIAL STUDY OF TWINS AND TRIPLETS ADOPTED APART", "THE DIAMOND EYE", "GIRL IN ICE", and "HEALING: OUR PATH FROM MENTAL ILLNESS TO MENTAL HEALTH". The bottom row contains covers of "KEYA DAS’S SECOND ACT", "KIND LIKE MARSHA: LEARNING FROM LGBTQ+ LEADERS", "THE LUNAR HOUSEWIFE", "SLAYING THE DRAGON: A SECRET HISTORY OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS", "TEN THOUSAND SELVES", and "THE TRAYVON GENERATION".

Books

Reading List Fall 2022: New historical fiction about Joan of Arc, a World War II thriller, and the “secret history” of Dungeons & Dragons

November 1, 2022

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Books

Introducing Young Readers to the Beauty and Wonder of Our National Parks

August 17, 2022

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In Alum Stewart O’Nan’s Ocean State, Teenage Passion Turns Deadly

August 2, 2022

In Alum Stewart O’Nan’s Ocean State, Teenage Passion Turns Deadly