March is Women's History Month, and we're celebrating with a collection of staff-selected memoirs by women. Cicely Tyson, one of the most respected talents in American theater and film, looks back at her six-decade career and life in Just As I Am. (She passed away just days after this book was published in January.) Randa Jarrar takes a road trip across America in Love Is an Ex-Country—reflecting on her identity as a Queer, Muslim, Arab American, and a proudly Fat woman. A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to confront her family’s history in Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller. And Jeanette Winterson asks the question Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? in her memoir. Find these and many more selections in the store this month or here on harvard.com.

Monday, March 8, 5PM ET

Legendary biographer Hermione Lee—whose work includes biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Penelope Fitzgerald (winner of the James Tait Black Prize and one of the New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2014), Philip Roth, and Willa Cather—discusses the highly anticipated Tom Stoppard: A Life, her first biography of a living subject. Online via Zoom.

Monday, March 8, 7PM ET

Teodros Kiros, acclaimed scholar of African philosophy and professor at Berklee College of Music, and Cornel West, the renowned writer and public philosopher, discuss Teodros's latest book, Conversations with Cornel West. Online via Zoom.

Tuesday, March 9, 6PM ET

Acclaimed cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein—assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of New Hampshire—discusses her debut book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred. She will be joined in conversation by writer Kiese Laymon, author of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and Heavy: An American Memoir. Online via Zoom.

Wednesday, March 10, 6PM ET

Alabama native John Archibald—Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The Birmingham News—discusses his debut memoir, Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution. He will be joined in conversation by Roy Wood, comedian, activist, and featured correspondent on Comedy Central's Emmy Award–winning The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Online via Zoom.

Thursday, March 11, 5PM ET

Robert Stickgold—associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center—discusses When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep with co-author Antonio Zadra, renowned sleep and dream scientist at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur's Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine. Online via Zoom.

Thursday, March 11, 7PM ET

Acclaimed writers and contributors Tyehimba Jess, Cheswayo Mphanza, Domenica Ruta, Sonia Sanchez, and Yeoh Jo-Ann discuss their work in Ancestors, the Winter 2021 issue of the Boston Review. Their discussion will be moderated by editors Adam McGee, Ed Pavlić, and Ivelisse Rodriguez. Online via Zoom.

Friday, March 12, 12PM ET

Cristina Groeger—assistant professor of History at Lake Forest College and a Cambridge Rindge and Latin and Harvard University graduate—discusses The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston. Joining in conversation is Nick Juravich, assistant professor of History and Labor Studies and the Associate Director of the Labor Resource Center at UMass Boston. Online via Zoom.

Friday, March 12, 7PM ET

Rebecca Solnit—renowned author of Men Explain Things to Me, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, The Faraway Nearby, and others—celebrates the paperback release of her acclaimed, bestselling memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence. She will be joined in conversation by writer, artist, and activist Chanel Miller, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning memoir, Know My Name. Online via Zoom.

Ticketing: All tickets include a paperback copy of Recollections of My Nonexistence and a bookplate signed by the author.

This week's new titles include a memoir from Isabel Allende, an exploration of the misinformation age from Cass R. Sunstein, and paperback and young reader's editions of Michelle Obama's Becoming. In case you missed it, check out our latest "New This Week" newsletter, and come browse our virtual New Arrivals shelves for all the very latest new books, updated every Tuesday!

Into the Video Archive

Earlier this month we hosted a virtual event with Elizabeth Kolbert—staff writer at the New Yorker and author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History—for a discussion of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future. She was joined in conversation by Amy Brady, Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Review of Books, where she writes a monthly column that explores how contemporary fiction addresses issues of climate change. Check out the video on the HBS Channel, where you can explore our virtual event archive.