This Week's New Arrivals
Updates from Harvard Book Store
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August 31, 2021
This week's new arrivals include a groundbreaking investigative story of the war in Afghanistan, The Afghanistan Papers; an essential volume for Virginia Woolf readers, The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway; and new and selected poems by poet Lloyd Schwartz, Who’s on First?. We offer in-store shopping and pickup, and we ship books, anywhere in the U.S. Thank you for supporting Harvard Book Store!
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This week's new fiction includes The Heart Principle, in which a woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected—and the man she enlists to help her—in a new romance by Helen Hoang, author of the bestseller The Kiss Quotient. With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder, and revenge in A Slow Fire Burning.
Heading over to the poetry shelves, renowned local poet Lloyd Schwartz publishes Who's on First?: New and Selected Poems this week. His poems are a rare combination of the heartbreaking and the hilarious. With his ear for the poetry of the vernacular, Schwartz offers us a memorable cast of characters—both real and imagined, foolish and oracular. Underlying all of these poems is the question of what it takes and what it costs to make art.
And there's much more fiction to browse. Three Rooms, a debut novel by Jo Hamya, is "a tart pleasure . . . with echoes of Zadie Smith and Sally Rooney," about a young woman’s endless quest for an apartment of her own (Kirkus, starred review). Revelator by Daryl Gregory is a dark tale of a 1930s family in the remote hills of the Smoky Mountains. Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is a story collection by “American literary treasure” (Boston Globe) Hilma Wolitzer, many of which were originally published in Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War arrives this week from Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock, as the U.S. marks twenty years of war in Afghanistan. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains startling revelations from people who played a direct role in the war, from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines.
Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness explores three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be. The New Yale Book of Quotations is a revised, enlarged, and updated edition of the book named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal. Dive into an irreverent look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love in The Secret History of Food. And meet the determined woman who saved Dostoyevsky’s life and became a pioneer in Russian literary history in The Gambler Wife.
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When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves uses philosophy as an antidote to misinformation, providing an engaging tour through the basic principles of logic, argument, evidence, and probability that can make all of us more reasonable and responsible citizens.
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway is a breathtaking new scholarly release this week, arriving in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from Oxford scholar and critic Merve Emre. Intimate States collects fourteen essays that examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history. Games People Played: A Global History of Sports shows how sports have been practiced, experienced, and made meaningful by players and fans throughout history.
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New-to-paperback this week we have novel Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink; Having and Being Had by Eula Biss (“A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it’s possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society”—Associated Press); Hope without Optimism by literary scholar Terry Eagleton; and novel Red Pill by Hari Kunzru, who grafts "a taut psychological thriller onto an old-fashioned systems novel of the sort Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon used to write" (New York Times Book Review). Plus much more.
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Evan Osnos
Tuesday, September 14, 8PM ET
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Evan Osnos—staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China—discusses Wildland: The Making of America's Fury, which focuses on how individuals in Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL have navigated the changes in American politics and culture in the years between the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. There are two ticket options available for this event. Learn more.
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