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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

This Year, Black History Month Celebrates African Americans and the Arts

January 31, 2024

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2023 in Review

Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and Surprising Findings from BU Researchers

December 11, 2023

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Education

How Dickens and Other Authors Shaped Attitudes to Education—with Lasting Impacts

December 5, 2023

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Arts & Culture

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with These Books, Films, TV Shows, Podcasts, and Albums

November 17, 2023

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Books

When an Unknown Coach Named Rick Pitino Helped Lift BU Men’s Basketball to New Heights

November 16, 2023

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TV & Film

Alum’s True-Crime Book Now a Critically Acclaimed HBO Series

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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Books

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

November 16, 2023

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Books

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

Book History

Video: Why the UK and US have Different Titles for the same Book

November 6, 2023

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Zombies

Meet the BU Professor Building an Online Zombie Movie Archive

October 27, 2023

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Poetry

Major Jackson, Award-Winning Poet and Host of The Slowdown Podcast, Reads from New Collection at Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Tonight

September 27, 2023

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Books

Wesley Wildman on the Challenges and Joys of Writing Fiction after Work for Academic Audiences

September 26, 2023

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Literature

Booker Prize–Winning Author Ben Okri to Deliver Ha Jin Lecture Tonight

September 20, 2023

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World War II

Broadway Singers, a Nazi Sympathizer, and the Doomed Flight of the Yankee Clipper

September 5, 2023

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Student Voices

POV: Lord of Middle-Earth—Tolkien’s Legacy 50 Years after His Death

August 30, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: We Need to Keep Talking about Books, Not Ban Them

August 18, 2023

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Climate Change

What Can the Bible Teach Us about Fighting Climate Change?

August 15, 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

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