This Week's New Arrivals
Updates from Harvard Book Store
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September 22, 2021
This week's new arrivals include Peril from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Bewilderment by Richard Powers, Renewal by Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Change Sings by Amanda Gorman. We offer in-store and curbside pickup for your online and phone orders, and we are open for shopping daily, 10am to 10pm. (We can also ship books, anywhere in the U.S.!) However you choose to shop, come browse 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 the latest novel from Pulitzer winner Richard Powers, Bewilderment—short-listed for the Booker Prize and the next pick for our Signed First Edition Club. The Boston Globe writes, "In a year of unprecedented worldwide drought, fire, and flooding, [Bewilderment] couldn’t be timelier. . . . Whether concerning family or nature, this heart-rending tale warns us to take nothing for granted." From Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda comes the newest volume of an Eisner, Hugo, Harvey, and British Fantasy Award–winning comics series, Monstress, Volume 6: The Vow. And "if you’ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home,” writes novelist David Mitchell on the new novel by Ruth Ozeki.
Tongo Eisen-Martin is the Poet Laureate of San Francisco, and Blood on the Fog is his newest collection of poems, volume 62 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series. History professor Dr. Gerald Horne calls Eisen-Martin "today's premier revolutionary poet" writing in "the lofty tradition of Langston Hughes, June Jordan, and Amiri Baraka."
The Wrong End of the Telescope is the latest novel by Rabih Alameddine, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman. It's the story of an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island, "a prismatic, sui generis story that’s unafraid of humor while addressing a humanitarian crisis" (Los Angeles Times).
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NPR, on the new and much-reported-on book by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, writes "We know that the period between the election and the inauguration was a time of great domestic turmoil. And what Peril does is it shows that this was also a grave national security crisis." It's on our shelves now.
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. In Vanderbilt, Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chart the rise and fall of an American dynasty, and Cooper's mother’s family, the Vanderbilts. A Revolution in Three Acts is a graphic nonfiction history that tells the story of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge, who became three of the most provocative and popular performers in vaudeville, the form in which American mass entertainment first took shape.
The Amur River by travel writer Colin Thubron recounts a perilous journey along a little-known Far East Asian river that for over a thousand miles forms the highly contested border between Russia and China. Philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century upends the way we discuss—or avoid discussing—the problems and politics of sex. The Secret of Life is an authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure from Howard Markel, one of our most prominent medical historians.
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Princeton professor and CEO of New America Anne-Marie Slaughter offers hope tempered by honesty in Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics, weaving together personal stories and reflections with insights from the latest research in the social sciences. Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth written by noted scholar of youth sexuality Ritch C. Savin-Williams "shows all of the ways bisexuality has been misunderstood" (Mary Robertson). The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality offers a bold new vision of a society where everyone thrives, regardless of how they fare in the "genetic lottery." A Wider Type of Freedom provides a survey of the transformative, radical, and abolitionist movements in the United States that places the struggle for racial justice at the center of universal liberation.
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This week's new-to-paperback titles include the bestselling novel The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, nonfiction from Lindy West and Charles M. Blow, and The Price of the Ticket, an essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.”
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Change Sings: A Children's Anthem is a lyrical picture book debut from presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long. As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes—big or small—in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves.
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Colm Tóibín
Thursday, September 23, 5PM ET
Colm Tóibín—award-winning author of The Master, Brooklyn, and Nora Webster—discusses The Magician, a fictional biography of novelist Thomas Mann. Tickets required; there are two ticket options available for this event. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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