Hey, did you know that author Roxane Gay started a book club this year? It's called The Audacious Book Club, and features twelve titles, either recently published or due out later this year. We've put together the 2021 Audacious Book Club list on harvard.com, where you can order (or pre-order) any of the selections! And thank you to Roxane Gay for noting to members: "Please purchase the books from your favorite independent bookstore or check them out from your local library."

The Audacious Book Club's April pick is Milk Blood Heat, which Harvard Book Store's Lauren A. calls "fully assured and, true to its title, packing heat, profoundly embodied." This story collection is also our next pick for the Signed New Voices in Fiction Club, a subscription service that offers members a newly published work of debut fiction, four times a year. Learn more about our signed book subscription clubs below and at harvard.com/signedfirst!

Monday, March 15, 5PM ET

Thomas Cooper—professor of ethics and media studies at Emerson College and founding director of The Association for Responsible Communication—discusses his latest book, Doing the Right Thing: Twelve Portraits in Moral Courage. Online via Zoom.

Monday, March 15, 7PM ET

Imbolo Mbue—author of the bestselling, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning Behold the Dreamers—discusses her latest, highly anticipated novel, How Beautiful We Were. She will be joined in conversation by writer and editor Yiyun Li, author of Must I Go, Where Reasons End, and Kinder Than Solitude. Online via Zoom.

There are two ticket options available for this event: A $33.25 admission ticket includes one admission link and one hardcover copy of How Beautiful We Were; and a Pay-What-You-Can Ticket includes one admission link.

Tuesday, March 16, 7PM ET

Contributors Tom Bissell, Susan Choi, Lauren Groff, Morgan Jerkins, and Stacy Schiff join editor Jenny Minton Quigley (daughter of Lolita's original American publisher!) for a panel discussion of Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century. Online via Zoom.

Wednesday, March 17, 7PM ET

Legal scholar Jamal Greene—the Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia University—discusses How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart. Joining him is Jill Lepore, the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and author of the bestselling, award-winning These Truths: A History of the United States. Online via Zoom.

Thursday, March 18, 7PM ET

Alec MacGillis—senior reporter for ProPublica and author of The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell—discusses his latest book, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America. He will be joined in conversation by journalist Renée Loth, opinion columnist for The Boston Globe. Online via Zoom.

Friday, March 19, 12PM ET

Brandon L. Garrett—the L. Neil Williams Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and author of End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice—discusses his latest book, Autopsy of a Crime Lab: Exposing the Flaws in Forensics. Online via Zoom.

Friday, March 19, 7PM ET

Walter Isaacson—author of the bestselling, acclaimed biographies Steve Jobs and Leonardo Da Vinci—discusses his latest book, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Joining him in conversation is celebrated chemist David R. Liu, Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare and Vice-Chair of the Faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Online via Zoom.

There are two ticket options available for this event: A $41.25 admission ticket includes one admission link, one hardcover copy of The Code Breaker, and one bookplate signed by the author; a Pay-What-You-Can Ticket includes one admission link.

Now is a great time to sign up for our Signed First Edition Clubs (or give a gift subscription)! We currently have two clubs running. The monthly Signed First Edition Club delivers a signed copy of a newly published book to members, recommended by our staff and selected for its literary merit. Our upcoming picks are Infinite Country by Patricia Engel and How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue. We also have the quarterly Signed New Voices in Fiction Club. Every three months we feature a buzzworthy debut work of fiction; our winter selection is Milk Blood Heat: Stories by Dantiel W. Moniz. Check out the clubs and learn more at harvard.com/signedfirst.

This week's new arrivals include new titles from biographer Walter Isaacson, science writer Carl Zimmer, and YA author (and Boston Globe columnist) Meredith Goldstein. 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 week we hosted a virtual event with Sarah Gailey for their novel The Echo Wife (“a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions”—Entertainment Weekly). They were joined in conversation by Tochi Onyebuchi, author of the celebrated novels Beast Made of Night, War Girls, and Riot Baby. Check out the video on the HBS Channel, where you can explore our video event archive.