This Week's New Arrivals
Updates from Harvard Book Store
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September 8, 2021
This week we kick off the release of hundreds of new books this fall. This week's new arrivals include Professor Randall Kennedy's Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture and new novels from Sally Rooney and Lauren Groff. We offer curbside or in-store pickup for your online and phone orders, and we are open for shopping 10am to 10pm daily. (We can also ship books, anywhere in the U.S.!) However you choose to shop, take a look at this week's new arrivals and this month's featured titles. Thank you for supporting Harvard Book Store!
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This week's new fiction includes new novels from Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends; Lauren Groff, following up her groundbreaking Fates and Furies; and Colm Tóibín, author of The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award.
Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You introduces readers to Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon. “As much as she resists the title, Rooney’s new book may just cement her status as a leading voice of the millennial generation," writes Harper's Bazaar. Groff's Matrix is ”the medieval nun drama you didn’t know you needed" (Vulture) and the Boston Globe writes, “Groff’s worldbuilding offers a sweeping backdrop of crusades, plagues, religious visions, and social stratification to inform this tale of women’s resistance, desire, and power." Tóibín's The Magician is a complex portrait of writer Thomas Mann, his wife Katia, and the times they lived in—the first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile.
We also have Inseparable, a never-before-published novel by Simone de Beauvoir; a new publication from Sandra Cisneros, a beautiful and haunting story called Martita, I Remember You; and much more.
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In a magnum opus that spans two decades, Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy, one of our preeminent legal scholars and public intellectuals, gives us twenty-nine provocative essays—some previously published, others written for this occasion—that explore key social justice issues of our time. Say It Loud! is a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural and historical issues surrounding race and race relations in America.
In On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, Maggie Nelson—author of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts—examines the concept of freedom through its complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate. In Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation one of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated. The memoir Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in New York City. Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in Poet Warrior: A Memoir.
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This week's new scholarly titles include Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer. "An urgent story for our times, Walk With Me hurls readers headlong into the violent and repressive context of rural Mississippi before voting was a protected right for all Americans, even as it paints a moving picture of indelible courage and breathtaking transformation. Historian Kate Larson does not withhold the excruciating details of Civil Rights era activism and backlash in this book; rather, she carefully pairs these violent accounts with the uplifting moments of song, food, faith, and resilience that characterized Fannie Lou Hamer's family and community life," writes Tiya Miles.
We also have Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidating the debates over the founding documents of the United States in Power and Liberty and Harvard Law's Cass R. Sunstein exploring how our government has become burdened by red tape and unnecessary paperwork in Sludge.
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This week's new-to-paperback titles include Jill Lepore's If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, Alice Hoffman's Magic Lessons, and David Sedaris's The Best of Me.
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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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