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Alumni

Proposed LGBTQ+ Library in Boston Would Be a First

September 18, 2023

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Books

Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder: Alum David Grann’s New Book, The Wager, Is a High-Seas Adventure

August 9, 2023

A composite image made up of two rows of four book covers. Covers of books are (from top to bottom, left to right): "The Commonplace Misfortunes Of Everyday Plants", "Every Other Weekend", "The Fun Widow’s Book Tour", "Mattress Makers", "Moma Goes To Paris In 1938: Building And Politicizing American Art", "The Ransomware Hunting Team", "The Ruins Of Woodman's Village", and "Secret Of The Storm: Land Of Dragons".

Books

Reading List: New Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by BU Alums

August 9, 2023

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Books

Imagining a Postapocalyptic World Ravaged by Climate Change

August 8, 2023

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LGBTQ+

Alum’s New Memoir Chronicles Her Experience Coming Out at 38

June 7, 2023

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Books

He Wrote a Book to Help Kids Deal with ADHD Better than He Did

June 6, 2023

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Books

Reading List Winter–Spring 2023: New fiction, short stories, poetry, and a memoir by actor Geena Davis (CFA’79, Hon.’99)

March 27, 2023

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Books

Opening Doors: Emma Kalff (CAS’15) and Sandra Soto (Wheelock’16)

February 24, 2023

Lydia Moland (UNI’97,’97, GRS’02) says abolitionist Lydia Maria Child was “a devastatingly good arguer…. She was a very, very powerful thinker and writer.” Photo by James Johnson

Alumni

Profiling a 19th-Century Woman’s “Radical American Life”

November 14, 2022

Collage: 12 Book covers arranged in two rows of six. Top row covers: "BUILD ME A CITY: SECRETS, LIES, AND LOVE IN BARON HAUSSMANN'S PARIS", "CLASSIC BASEBALL: TIMELESS TALES, IMMORTAL MOMENTS", "DELIBERATELY DIVIDED: INSIDE THE CONTROVERSIAL STUDY OF TWINS AND TRIPLETS ADOPTED APART", "THE DIAMOND EYE", "GIRL IN ICE", and "HEALING: OUR PATH FROM MENTAL ILLNESS TO MENTAL HEALTH". The bottom row contains covers of "KEYA DAS’S SECOND ACT", "KIND LIKE MARSHA: LEARNING FROM LGBTQ+ LEADERS", "THE LUNAR HOUSEWIFE", "SLAYING THE DRAGON: A SECRET HISTORY OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS", "TEN THOUSAND SELVES", and "THE TRAYVON GENERATION".

Books

Reading List Fall 2022: New historical fiction about Joan of Arc, a World War II thriller, and the “secret history” of Dungeons & Dragons

November 1, 2022

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Books

Introducing Young Readers to the Beauty and Wonder of Our National Parks

August 17, 2022

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Books

In Alum Stewart O’Nan’s Ocean State, Teenage Passion Turns Deadly

August 2, 2022

SOUTH YARMOUTH, MA - MARCH 5: Sgt. Robert Bolduc, right, leads away Antone C. Costa, 24, of Provincetown, MA after his arrest in Boston and charges of the murders of two Rhode Island women at the Yarmouth Barracks, Massachusetts State Police Headquarters in South Yarmouth, MA on March 5, 1969. Three bodies of young women were discovered on Cape Cod in Truro's woods. Costa was arrested in a Marlboro St. apartment in Boston's Back Bay and arraigned the following day in Provincetown. (Photo by Bill Brett/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Books

Casey Sherman’s New Crime Thriller Revisits Cape Cod Serial Killer

July 19, 2022

Photo of Weike Wang (GRS’15), a young Asian American woman with shoulder length brown hair and turtle glass. She wears a black blouse and spotted green and yellow skirt and sits with her hands folded as she slightly smiles.

Books

In Alum Weike Wang’s New Novel, Joan Is Okay, a Chinese American Doctor Navigates Job and Family

May 16, 2022

A composite image with the book covers of The Art Of Revision: The Last Word, The Artist And The Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander Vii, And The Making Of Rome, Banned In Boston, The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, And Boston’s Struggle For Justice, Flame In A Stable, The Legendary Toad’s Place: Stories From New Haven’s Famed Music Venue, Music Is Murder, Payback’s A Witch, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, And The Global Battle For Cultural Supremacy, and They Called Us Girls: Stories Of Female Ambition From Suffrage To Mad Men

Books

Reading List: New Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by BU Alums Peter Ho Davies, Daniel M. Kimmel, Jan Brogan, and Others

May 16, 2022

Photo of Erich Schwartzel (COM’09), a light skinned man with short brown hair. He wears a black polo shirt and leans on a sliding glass door with this right hand.

Books

How China’s Box Office Shapes the Movies Americans See

March 23, 2022

Photo of Christine Riccio (COM’12) sitting on a cement staircase outside and hugging three copies of her book "Better Together." Riccio has long, wavy blonde hair and tilts her head as she smiles. She wears a white blouse with white sleeves and tan corduroy overalls.

Books

Alum Christine Riccio Turned a Love of Reading into a Career as a YouTuber and an Author

March 1, 2022

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Books

Detangling the History of Black Hair

December 10, 2021

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Immigration

Warren Binford’s Hear My Voice Lets Children Detained at the Border Tell Their Story

November 18, 2021

Composite image of the book covers for: At The Foot Of The Mountain By Tak Erzinger; The Brain On Youth Sports: The Science, The Myths, And The Future By Julie Stamm; Game Misconduct: Hockey's Toxic Culture And How To Fix It By Jashvina Shah and Evan F. Moore; Hair Twins By Raakhee Mirchandani; Literacy Heroines: Women And The Written Word By Alice Horning; No Other Rome By Heather Green; Sailing To Freedom: Maritime Dimensions Of The Underground Railroad Edited by Timothy D. Walker; Small Town Monsters By Diana Rodriguez Wallach; and The Playwright's House By Dariel Suarez

Books

Reading List Fall 2021

November 17, 2021

Reading List Fall 2021