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Photo: A collage of twelve book titles, stack in two rows, one on top of the other.

Books

Reading List: MET Alum’s Memoir Recounts How She Became “the Witch of Wall Street”

December 3, 2024

Photo: A composite image of 10 different book covers from Bostonia's summer reading list

Books

Reading List: Alum Bonnie Hammer Publishes 15 Lies Women Are Told at Work—Plus Fiction, Poetry, and Short Stories

August 7, 2024

Photo: Ten book covers, all with various different images on the front in a collage image.

Books

Reading List: What the Pandemic Revealed

March 22, 2024

Composite image of multiple book covers, including Hatchet Girls, Tandem, The Phoenix Crown, and more

Books

Reading List: Baseball, Rock ’n’ Roll, Murder, and Intrigue

November 16, 2023

Books

Meet Hatchet Girls, Just in Time for Halloween

October 16, 2023

Photo: A 12-book cover collage with six on the top and six on the bottom.

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

Photo: Artistic director Dariel Suarez (GRS’12) (left) and founder and executive director Eve Bridburg (GRS’97) sit and pose on a set of bright yellow stairs. Each step has the words "Get writing" printed on them in white. A latino man wearing a grey beret, grey shirt, and black pants sits and smiles with hands clasped in front of him. To his right, a white woman wearing a grey dress, black pantyhose, and red chunky necklace smiles and sits with one hand in lap and one on the stair.

Arts & Culture

Making Big Moves at GrubStreet

March 17, 2023

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

Composite image. At left, a portrait of Kim Stanley Robinson, an older white man with short gray hair and glasses. He half smiles and wears a thick suit jacket with a pale green dress shirt. At right, a sci-fi looking illustration in deep blue, purple and green colors. It features what looks like an eye at center, with butterflies bottom left and top right, and a hand holding a bright orb. A moon, circuit board, and clouds are also seen.

SPECIAL ISSUE: BU RESEARCH

Kim Stanley Robinson on the Importance of Imagination

May 16, 2022

Arts & Culture

Reading List: Page-Turners, a Wedding Ceremony Guide, and a Campus Firebrand’s Memoir

July 9, 2019

Arts & Culture

Author Elizabeth McCracken Hates Elves, Loves Fortune Cookies

July 9, 2019

fiction

How to Create Suspense

July 9, 2019

Literature

Book Reviews

February 19, 2019

Book Reviews