This Week's New Arrivals
Updates from Harvard Book Store
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November 2, 2021
This week's new arrivals include an elegiac (and very funny) new Gary Shteyngart novel; a groundbreaking study of the Lincoln presidency from celebrated legal scholar Noah Feldman; and a new memoir from Ai Weiwei, who has been hailed as as “the most important artist working today” by the Financial Times and as “an eloquent and unsilenceable voice of freedom” by The New York Times. We offer in-store and curbside pickup for your online and phone orders, and we are open for shopping daily. (We can also ship books, anywhere in the U.S.!) However you choose to shop, come browse this week's new arrivals and our newly announced Holiday Hundred titles, featured for holiday gift-giving! Thank you for supporting Harvard Book Store!
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Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story, has written the "Great American Pandemic Novel," writes Kirkus Reviews, as he brings together eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation in Our Country Friends. The New York Times writes, “At turns bitingly funny and unbearably sad, it’s among the first major works of literary fiction to wrestle with the psychological, sociological and cultural impact of the pandemic, and marks a new, more reflective register for Shteyngart.”
An NPR Books "Best Book of Fall," Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu is a perceptive debut novel of growing up as a biracial Chinese American, filled with tension, self-examination, and a search for identity. The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak; “Shafak amazes with this resonant story of the generational trauma of the Cypriot Civil War . . . Shafak’s fans are in for a treat, and those new to her will be eager to discover her earlier work, writes Publishers Weekly in a starred review. From the author of Remainder and two novels short-listed for the Booker Prize—C and Satin Island—The Making of Incarnation is a high-tech odyssey through CGI studios, wind tunnels, and drone research centers that cements author Tom McCarthy in the tradition of Gibson, Stephenson, Dick, and Pynchon in using the ways technology is redefining our world to redefine the possibilities of fiction. And New York, My Village by Uwem Akpan is a comic novel about a Nigerian book editor who has traveled to New York City to learn about American publishing; he comes to face the racist assumptions about Africa and its people, while still finding hope in the sharing of stories.
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The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Harvard Law School's Noah Feldman argues that Abraham Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements in order to "remake" the Constitution in a riveting narrative of legal dilemmas and moral courage. In his widely anticipated memoir 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, Ai Weiwei—one of the world’s most famous artists and activists—tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation’s most celebrated poet. Physics professor Daniel Whiteson and scientist-turned-cartoonist Jorge Cham are experts at explaining science in ways we can all understand in their books and on their popular podcast, Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe, and they bring that same witty, entertaining sensibility to their new book Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe.
In One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America, Saru Jayaraman—a nationally acclaimed restaurant activist and the author of the bestselling Behind the Kitchen Door—shines a light on the food and restaurant industry's tipped workers, illustrating how the people left out of the fight for a fair minimum wage are society’s most marginalized. And climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate shares her story as a young Ugandan woman who sees that her community bears disproportionate consequences of the climate crisis in A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis.
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In Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization, David Livingstone Smith offers a poignant examination of the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization. “Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole—Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard—in Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity—and witness the humanity of others—in a time of darkness.
Largely ignored by historians and previously home to prisons, asylums, and sewage treatment plants, the Boston Harbor Islands have existed quietly on the urban fringe over the last four centuries, and Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands reinterprets the Boston Harbor Islands as an urban archipelago.
The Women Are Up to Something tells the story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. And Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs untangles the genetic and archaeological evidence of a unique partnership that rewrote the history of our species (and that of our canine best friends).
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Tana French with Gillian Flynn
Thursday, November 11, 5PM ET
Tana French—bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, and The Witch Elm—celebrates the paperback release of her latest acclaimed novel, The Searcher. Joining in conversation is novelist and screenwriter Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl, Dark Places, and Sharp Objects. Tickets required: All tickets include a paperback copy of The Searcher. Online via Zoom. Learn more.
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