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What's Become of the Common Good?
This week we're pleased to announce a new addition to our Tuesday virtual event with world-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel, discussing his new book The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?.
Professor Sandel will be joined in conversation by Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and author of Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law.
Learn more and register here.
And Join Us...
And we have a few more new event announcements for September and early October. Join us for virtual events this fall including talks with Harvard Medical School professors Felton Earls and Mary Carlson, discussing their co-authored book Voice, Choice, and Action: The Potential of Young Citizens to Heal Democracy, moderated by Alex Kotlowitz (Sep 28); acclaimed poet Joshua Bennett presenting two new books, Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man and poetry collection Owed—joined in conversation by scholar and Princeton professor Imani Perry (Sep 29); science journalist Katia Moskvitch presenting Neutron Stars: The Quest to Understand the Zombies of the Cosmos (Sep 30); renowned legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein discussing his latest, Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don't Want to Know (Oct 2); and award-winning novelist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum discussing her new story collection, Likes, in conversation with fellow fiction writer Danzy Senna (Oct 2).
In Case You Missed It
Last month we hosted a virtual event with CNN's chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, in conversation with Professor Noah Feldman, for a discussion of Toobin's latest book, Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump.
Check out the video on the HBS Channel, where you can explore our virtual event archive, in addition to previous event recordings, courtesy of the Forum Network.
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Come visit the harvard.com homepage often. It's updated weekly with our latest new arrivals and store best sellers. And dozens of new titles can be explored on our New This Week page. No algorithms. Smart book lovers are behind these digital suggestions.
Thanks for reading,
Alex W. Meriwether
Harvard Book Store
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True Story:
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by Kate Reed Petty
$26.00
Viking, hardcover
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"Kate Reed Petty accomplishes a phenomenal task for any novel: she gives us something completely real and authentic through fiction. Tackling difficult and controversial subject matter like sexual assault, substance abuse, and domestic violence is a Herculean task for a writer, and Petty handles it brilliantly. She blurs the lines between reality and perception, capturing all the distortions that trauma can bring in a way that exposes the deeper truths of who these people really are. Heart-racing, palms-sweating, this book provided one of my most stressed-out reading experiences."
—Melissa S., Harvard Book Store
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Monogamy:
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by Sue Miller
$28.99
Harper, hardcover
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Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. When Graham suddenly dies, Annie is lost. While she is still mourning him intensely, she discovers that Graham had been unfaithful to her, and she spirals into darkness, wondering if she ever truly knew the man who loved her.
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Just Us:
An American Conversation
by Claudia Rankine
$30.00
Graywolf Press, hardcover
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As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? In this, her follow up to Citizen, Claudia Rankine brings together a collection of essays, poems, and images to confront white supremacy, urging us to begin a discussion that will propel us forward during this time of immense division in America.
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Three Rings:
A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
by Daniel Mendelsohn
$19.95
University of Virginia Press, hardcover
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Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers―Erich Auerbach, François Fénelon, and W. G. Sebald―with an account of Daniel Mendelsohn's experiences writing The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million and An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic, books haunted by their own tales of oppression and wandering.
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The Undying:
Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care
by Anne Boyer
$18.00
Picador, paperback
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A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. The Undying, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, explores her experience of illness, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers, vloggers, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism.
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Lupe Wong Won't Dance
by Donna Barba Higuera
$17.99
Levine Querido, hardcover
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Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's half-Chinese and half-Mexican, just like her. So when the horror of square dancing rears its head in gym? Obviously she's not gonna let that slide.
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Audiobook Pick from Libro.fm
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The Writer's Library:
The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager
Sign up here to purchase audiobooks through Libro.fm, which supports Harvard Book Store!
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Twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, and Jonathan Lethem reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives. The audio cast includes contributors Luis Alberto Urrea, Siri Hustvedt, Laurie Frankel, Vendela Vida, and Richard Ford, and features real conversations with Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, and Laila Lalami.
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Upcoming Virtual Events
Virtual Event Series
Tickets on Sale Now:
» Michael J. Sandel with Preet Bharara (Sep 15) discussing The Tyranny of Merit
» Ayad Akhtar with Joshua Ferris discussing Homeland Elegies (Sep 24) » Deepak Chopra (Oct 1) discussing Total Meditation: Practices in Living the Awakened Life |
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Juliet B. Schor
Fri, Sep 11, 12PM ET
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| Juliet B. Schor—Professor of Sociology at Boston College and author of The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure—discusses After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back. She will be joined in conversation by Veena Dubal, Professor of Law at the University of California's Hastings College of Law. |
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Vanessa Veselka
Fri, Sep 11, 7PM ET
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| Acclaimed novelist and essayist Vanessa Veselka—author of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize–winning novel Zazen—discusses her latest novel, The Great Offshore Grounds, the story of siblings on a quest to claim their inheritance. Acclaimed novelist Cara Hoffman joins in conversation. |
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Peace Adzo Medie
Mon, Sep 14, 5PM ET
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| Peace Adzo Medie—author of Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa—discusses her debut novel, His Only Wife. Joining her is acclaimed writer Wayétu Moore, author of She Would Be King: A Novel and The Dragons, The Giant, The Women: A Memoir. |
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Michael J. Sandel
Tue, Sep 15, 5PM ET
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| World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel—author of the internationally bestselling Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?—discusses The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? He will be joined in conversation by Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. |
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Thomas Levenson
Tue, Sep 15, 7PM ET
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| Thomas Levenson—professor of science writing at MIT and author of The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe—discusses Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich. |
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Alex Ross
Wed, Sep 16, 7PM ET
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| Alex Ross—acclaimed music critic for The New Yorker and author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century—discusses Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. He will be joined in conversation by renowned New Yorker literary critic and author James Wood. |
Online via Zoom
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Kerri Arsenault
Thu, Sep 17, 7PM ET
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| Writer and editor Kerri Arsenault discusses her debut memoir, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. Joining her in conversation is writer Lacy Crawford, author most recently of the memoir Notes on a Silencing. |
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Danielle Allen
Fri, Sep 18, 12PM ET
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| Danielle Allen—James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics—discusses Difference Without Domination: Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies with co-editor Rohini Somanathan, Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics. |
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Edward D. Melillo
Fri, Sep 18, 7PM ET
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| Edward D. Melillo—professor of history and environmental studies at Amherst College—discusses The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World. He will be joined in conversation by acclaimed science writer Charles C. Mann. |
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Community Events & Resources 
Community/Youth Black Out: A socially distanced event to reimagine what safety, fun, and community care can look like. Sat, Sep 12 at 4pm, Mayor Danehy Park [ learn more]
 Solidarity From Boston: BLM Protest For Jacob Blake: Protest this Wed, Sep 16 at 3pm, Boston Common [ learn more]
Ride the Vote: Bike ride from Franklin Park to the Boston Common for voting registration and to continue the fight for social justice. Sun, Sep 13 at 2pm, Franklin Park [ learn more] |
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