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Photo: Milton's Paradise Lost, an old book with old english type laying on a table. There is an illustrated portrait of a man with long hair in old style clothes in the left cover of the book.

Voices & Opinion

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

August 18, 2023

A composite image with multiple covers for LGBTQ movies and books. Included are Pageboy, It Came From The Closet, Three Months, and many others.

Pride Month

Celebrate Pride Month with These 16 Books and Movies

June 20, 2023

Image: Cover art for Christopher Rhodes’ come book, TEN. A silver-themed masked superhero wearing a cape is shown flying with black and red background. He flies toward the red title "TEN".

Books

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Politically Charged Superhero Comic!

June 14, 2023

Photo: Two hands with black painted fingernails hold a copy of "Stamped from the beginning", a graphic novel adapted from Dr Ibram X Kendi’s book

Books

Ibram Kendi, Joel Christian Gill Team up for New Graphic Version of Kendi’s Stamped From the Beginning

June 5, 2023

Photo: Abdulrazak Gurnah , Professor Muhammad Zaman (left) and Professor Carrie Preston sit at the front of Morse Auditorium on April 24, 2023. (from left) a tan man wearing a light blue collared shirt and navy blue suit looks and writes on sheets of paper, a Black man with white hair and a gray trimmed beard wearing a light blue collared shirt, blue blazer, and dark grey pants is turned to his right as he talks and gesticulates to a white woman wearing a red blazer, black dress, and black tights. They all sit in black chairs in front of a white background. A small table is at the center of them holding small plastic cups of water.

Arts & Culture

Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Speaks of Migrants and Memory—and That Call from Sweden

April 25, 2023

Photo: A woman and her son read books. The woman is wearing a headscarf. Women’s rights advocate Homeira Qaderi, pictured here with her son, Siawash, faced death for her activism when the Taliban retook Afghanistan in 2021.

Books

COM’s Mitchell Zuckoff Re-creates a Suspenseful Story from the Chaotic US Withdrawal from Afghanistan

April 25, 2023

Photo: Overhead shot of a person's hand as the roll a joint of weed. A dried plant is being rolled between brown paper of a table in a darkened room.

Business & Law

LAW’s Jay Wexler Fires Up Arguments to Normalize Pot in New Book

April 14, 2023

Photo: A portrait of Marilynne, a white woman with shoulder length gray hair. She is wearing a deep blue blazer and sits on a brown leather couch with a stained-glass-trimmed window behind her. She smiles softly for the camera.

Arts & Culture

Renowned Author Marilynne Robinson to Speak on Campus April 11

April 10, 2023

Photo: Bolsonarista terrorists generate chaos in Brasilia, Brazil in a coup attempt with the invasion of the STF, National Congress and Palacio do Planalto. Seen from the back, A Braizilian person wearing the Brazilian flag as a cape stands and faces a line of armed officers in riot gear. Scene is at night, as a fog is seen in the air.

Books

Trump, Putin, Orban: New Book, How Democracy Survives, Probes Global Threat

March 31, 2023

Collage: Three covers from Roald Dahl's books are shown in a row. From left to right, the covers of "Matilda", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and "James and the Giant Peach" are shown.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Revising Roald Dahl’s Classic Children’s Books Is a “Dangerous Portent of Future Censorship”

March 10, 2023

Author Tracy Kidder and Dr Jim O'Connell at WBUR to discuss Kidder's new book, Rough Sleepers. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Books

Award-Winning Author Tracy Kidder’s Rough Sleepers Focuses on BU’s Jim O’Connell

March 3, 2023

Photo: A collage of different non-fiction or children book covers.

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

11 Books to Read in Celebration of Women’s History Month

February 28, 2023

Photo: A collage of different book titles.

Books

12 Books to Make Your Heart Beat Faster This Valentine’s Day

February 13, 2023

Collage: Images from the covers and poster for various Black works. From top to bottom, left to right: "Do the Right Thing " movie poster, "Batea" by the Colombian band Bejuco album cover, "South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation" book cover, "The Woman King" and "African Queens" shows posters, Festival of Afrofuturism promotional poster, "Watchmen" show poster, "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!" album cover, "Seizing Freedom" podcast art, and "gossypiin" by Ra Malika Imhotep book cover

Black History Month

Celebrate Black History Month with These Books, Films, Albums, and Podcasts

January 31, 2023

A book burning in front of a dark background

Literature

As Book Bans Increase Across the Country a BU Scholar Is Fighting Back

January 25, 2023

The cover of "About Face" by William Giraldi. A man's face can be seen through what appears to be a burning hole in the book

Arts & Culture

William Giraldi’s About Face Is a Surreal Tale of Celebrity Obsession in the Internet Age

December 9, 2022

A family photo of the Silber's at the 1971 Boston University Commencement. The family's first Boston University Commencement and John Silber's inauguration as president. Front row, left to right: Kathryn, Laura Ruth, John, and David holding Caroline. Back row: Martha, Alexandra, Rachel, and Judith. Boston University Photography

Books

Determined? Divisive? Misunderstood? John Silber, Seen through His Daughter’s Eyes

November 23, 2022

“I had the good luck to be raised among expert joke-tellers, complainers, arguers, schmoozers, boasters, and liars,” Pinsky says in his new memoir, Jersey Breaks. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun. Pinsky stands looking out over an ocean beach on a cloudy day

Books

In His New Memoir, Jersey Breaks, Robert Pinsky Traces His Journey to Becoming a Poet

November 15, 2022

A. E. Stallings in front of the Parthenon in Greece

Poetry

A. E. Stallings, Whose Poems Use Classical Allusions to Explore Modern Life, Headlines Tonight’s Lowell Poetry Reading

November 14, 2022

Julius Schiller’s depiction of St. Joseph, the ideal husband and father in the Holy Family. Credit: Mendillo Collection

Arts & Culture

A Scientist Ponders Religious Depictions of the Stars

November 4, 2022

A Scientist Ponders Religious Depictions of the Stars