This Week's New Arrivals
Updates from Harvard Book Store
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December 7, 2021
This week's new arrivals include a new collection of poems by inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, an essay collection by novelist and scholar Siri Hustvedt, and newly collected writings on literature by Michel Foucault. 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 featured Holiday Hundred titles. Thank you for supporting Harvard Book Store!
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The much-awaited breakout poetry collection by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman arrives on our shelves this week. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Publishers Weekly writes, "Gorman’s thoughtfulness and activist spirit shine through on every page.”
An epic story of love, war, and redemption, Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim is a new novel set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter. The Veiled Throne by Ken Liu is the third book in the award-winning Dandelion Dynasty, which NPR calls a “magnificent fantasy epic.” Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel is a darkly funny and emotionally wrought debut novel about an Indian-American family struggling with deeply buried secrets. Winner of the German Book Award, Saša Stanišic’s Where You Come From is a novel about a family whose world is uprooted and remade by war: their history, their life before the conflict, and the years that followed their escape as they created a new life in a new country.
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This week's new nonfiction is topped off by Mothers, Fathers, and Others, a new essay collection by Siri Hustvedt, described as “a 21st-century Virginia Woolf” in the Literary Review (UK). Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted—between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork—which turn out to be far less stable than we imagine. (Join our virtual event this Wednesday.)
In Garbo, the acclaimed critic and editor Robert Gottlieb offers a vivid and thorough biography of Greta Garbo, beginning in the slums of Stockholm, proceeding through her struggle to elude the attention of the world, and taking us through the films she in which she starred. There Is Life After the Nobel Prize by neuroscientist Eric Kandel is a candid account of the working life of an acclaimed scientist as he recounts his remarkable career since receiving the Nobel in 2000. Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny is the definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier (1926–2009), the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life. Tomorrow Is Too Late: An International Youth Manifesto for Climate Justice collects testimonies of activism and hope from young climate strikers, from Brazil and Burundi to Pakistan and Palestine.
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As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most loyal readers. Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire.
Xenophon’s Anabasis joins the Landmark series of ancient classical texts this week, with the publication of The Landmark Xenophon's Anabasis. One of the greatest true-life adventure stories ever recorded, this ancient classic—also known as The March of the Ten Thousand or The March Up Country—is now brought to life in a newly translated, definitive edition that features copious illuminating annotations, maps, and illustrations.
In White Men's Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism, the eminent scholar Peter Irons makes a powerful and persuasive case that African Americans have always been held back by systemic racism in all major institutions that can hold power over them. Red Scare: The State's Indigenous Terrorist shows how US and Canadian leaders leverage the fear-driven discourses of terrorism to allow for extreme responses to Indigenous activists, framing them as threats to social stability and national security. #MeToo and Literary Studies gathers essays on literature from Ovid to Carmen Maria Machado, by academics working across the United States and around the world, who offer clear ways of using our reading, teaching, and critical practices to address rape culture and sexual violence.
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