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Nancy Schon's Make Way for the Ducklings sculpture in Boston decorated with all ducks wearing Boston Red Sox jerseys to celebrate winning the World Series.

Arts & Culture

Sculptor Nancy Schön Pays Tribute to the Public in Her New Book, Ducks on Parade!

July 27, 2021

Portrait of Peter Ho Davies in a jean button down shirt in front of a tree trunk.

Books

New Novel by Peter Ho Davies Takes a Searing, Painful, Loving Look at Parenting

July 24, 2021

Composite image of the book covers for the following books: ALL ABOUT FLOWERS: JAMES VICK’S NINETEENTH-CENTURY SEED COMPANY By Thomas Mickey; ANIMAL By Lisa Taddeo; BITTER MAGIC: INSPIRED BY THE TRUE STORY OF A CONFESSED WITCH By Nancy Hayes Kilgore; THE COST OF KNOWING By Brittney Morris; ECONOMY HALL: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF A FREE BLACK BROTHERHOOD By Fatima Shaik; THE FALLS By Emily Mohn-Slate; A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF POLICE STOPS By Josephine Ross; THE GREEK CONNECTION By James Barron; LOVE IS GREATER THAN PAIN: SECRETS FROM THE UNIVERSE FOR HEALING AFTER LOSS By Marilyn Kapp; OUR OWN WORST ENEMY: THE ASSAULT FROM WITHIN ON MODERN DEMOCRACY By Tom Nichols; RED DECEPTION By Ed Fuller; THE SOUVENIR MUSEUM By Elizabeth McCracken; WHY WE ARE RESTLESS: ON THE MODERN QUEST FOR CONTENTMENT By Jenna Silber Store.

Books

Reading List Summer 2021: New Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by BU Alums

July 24, 2021

A photo of the Old State House in Boston

Books

City Archaeologist Joe Bagley’s New Book Digs Deep into Boston’s Oldest Buildings

June 9, 2021

Black and white photo of Susan Ann Sulley of The Human League performing at Spit on Lansdowne Street in Boston. She stands at the mic with bright lights behind her but she’s only seen in silhouette.

Creatives

Photographer Michael Grecco (COM’81) Caught ’70s Punk and New Wave at Its Crest

March 26, 2021

Composite image, photo of Peter Guralnick with glasses on sitting in a teal rocking chair on a porch, next to the book cover for “Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music & Writing” with a photo of Bob Dylan and a man in a cowboy hate that looks at an acoustic electric guitar.

Arts & Culture

Peter Guralnick (CAS’67, GRS’68) Says Looking to Get Lost is as Close to a Memoir as He’ll Ever Write

March 26, 2021

Composite image of the book covers for: Corner Shrine, Devastation Class, In Security, The Land of the Dead is Open for Business, The Man Who Loved His Wife, Me and Her Shadow, Sugar Shock, Ten Thousand Shells and Counting: A Memoir, and Terror to the Wicked: America’s First Trial by Jury that Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation.

Books

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

March 25, 2021

composite image of book covers from BU alumni in two rows of six on a white background. Starting at top, left, “60 Stories about 30 Seconds” by Bruce Van Dusen, “Asian Pickles at Home” by Patricia Tanumihardja, “The Cokettes” by Fayette Hauser, “Diners, Dudes & Diets” by Emily J.H. Contois, “A Place of Exodus” by David Biespiel, “The Gretchen Question” by Jessica Treadway, “How to think like an Officer” by Reed Bonadonna, “Hunting Whitey” by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge, “Last Call” by Elon Green, “The King’s Beast” by Eliot Pattison, “The New Husband” by D.J. Palmer, and “Women in a Waiting Room” by Kirun Kapur.

Books

Reading List

November 20, 2020

US infantrymen make their way through the Hürtgen Forest on November 8, 1944.

Books

Alum’s Book Recounts Long Overdue Search for Lost World War II Soldiers

November 11, 2020

A photo of an assembly line with apples on it

Food

How COVID-19 Changed Our View of the Food Supply Chain

October 12, 2020

Composite image: on the left, a portrait of Best-selling author and BU alum Sue Miller on a black background. She smiles slightly and wears a black and white stripped shirt. On the right, the book cover of "Monogamy, a novel by Sue Miller, New York Times Best-Selling Author." The cover is dark teal with orange leaves.

Literature

BU Alum Sue Miller’s Novel Monogamy Explores a Good Marriage

October 8, 2020

Screenshot from an excerpt from Merchant’s story, The Parrot With the Golden Feathers, on the World of Imagination website. An open book is framed by stacks of books on the left and right. One the left hand page of the open book, we see an orange origami-like bird. On the right, the story reads “The Parrot With the Golden Feathers: In a far away land on a far away mountaintop lived a very powerful and very scary witch. Her home was in a cave deep inside the mountain. It was so deep inside the mountain. It was so deep that when she made her potions over her large cauldrons, the smoke could not reach the outside. She only left her mountain when she needed to gather ingredients to make new potions and spells. One day, she was running low on the special roses she needed so she hopped on her broom and flew down to the kingdom below.”

Books

BU Alum Launches a Website for Young Readers

September 11, 2020

A photo of Whitey Bulger and Kevin Weeks walking

Books

COM Alum Casey Sherman’s Book Has New Details on Whitey Bulger

July 27, 2020

A composite image of some of the books discussed in the article below including The Real Deal: My Decade Fighting Battles and Winning Wars with Trump, Black Flag, A Clean Heart, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, Geode, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences, Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems, and Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

Literature

Reading List: Alumni Books That Caught Our Eye

July 7, 2020

A portrait photo of Lara Ehrlich

Books

Lara Ehrlich Finds Inspiration in Fairy Tales in Her Debut Collection, Animal Wife

July 7, 2020

A portrait photo of Sopan Deb laughing

Books

Humor and Honesty Help Fix a Fractured Relationship with Mom and Dad

May 27, 2020

A portrait photo of Elissa Altman

Books

Layers of Love, Loathing, and Longing

March 11, 2020

Writer and novelist Dariel Suarez (CFA’12) sits in his office with his laptop open on a desk behind him.

Arts & Culture

The “American Dirt” Controversy: Lessons for Writers on Getting Cultures Right

February 24, 2020

A selection of book covers

Books

Reading List: Alumni Books that Caught Our Eye

February 18, 2020

A portrait of Katherine Hollander (GRS’06,’15)

Poetry

Poetry and Time Travel: Alum Katherine Hollander’s Debut Poetry Collection

February 18, 2020

Poetry and Time Travel: Alum Katherine Hollander’s Debut Poetry Collection