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Literature

Paperback books stacked on top of each other..

Books

BU Libraries’ Most Popular Books (“Popular” Being Relative)

February 24, 2020

A photo of the cover of Sheila's Cordner's book "Who’s Hiding in This Book?"

Faculty

CGS Lecturer’s New Picture Book Introduces Young Readers to Literary Classics

January 29, 2020

A photo of a woman on a bed reading a book surrounded by other open books.

Voices & Opinion

POV: What Makes for a Satisfying Ending?

January 16, 2020

A portrait of Viet Thanh Nguyen who will be delivering the 2019 Ha Jin Lecture

Arts & Culture

Pulitzer-Winning Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen to Give Ha Jin Lecture Tonight

November 19, 2019

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye smiles for a photo while standing on a bridge

Arts & Culture

“Wandering Poet” Naomi Shihab Nye Headlines Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading

November 5, 2019

a crowd watches the Last year Commonwealth Shakespeare Company perform onstage

Theatre

To Do Today: Shakespeare Live on the Common

July 17, 2019

A still of Bela Lugosi playing Dracula in the 1931 film

Literature

This Class Bites

May 7, 2019

Portrait of Mark Halliday

Creative Writing

Poet Mark Halliday Headlines Lowell Poetry Reading Thursday

April 10, 2019

3 portraits who are experts on attraction

Health & Medicine

Why We’re Attracted to the People We’re Attracted To

February 7, 2019

Raakhee Mirchandani holds her book Super Satya Saves the Day

Alumni

A Fictional Superhero Inspired by a Real-Life Four-Year-Old

January 15, 2019

Chelsea Bray poses for a portrait with cotton milling machines in the historical Boott Cotton Mill in Lowell, MA said to be an inspiration for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

University News

A Christmas Carol: Made in Massachusetts?

December 18, 2018

Video still from the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tv special showing Santa Claus talking to Rudolph with his blinking red nose.

Holiday

POV: Rudolph the Sad, Bullied, Verbally Abused Red-Nosed Reindeer

December 7, 2018

Breaking Bad character Walter White sits in a recliner with his family wife Skylar and son Walt Jr. in the background.

Literature

Breaking Bad Director Gives CAS Class the Inside Dope

November 30, 2018

CAS Lecturer + author Sigrid Nunez

Faculty

Sigrid Nunez Up For Top Literature Honor

November 14, 2018

a portrait of Marilyn Chin

Creative Writing

Marilyn Chin Headlines Tonight’s Robert Lowell Poetry Reading

October 25, 2018

A black and white portrait of George Sanders

Literature

Lincoln in the Bardo Author George Saunders Reads at BU Tonight

October 9, 2018

Arts & Culture

Mrs. Ahab Meets the Whale

April 19, 2018

Poetry

Lyric Poets Headline Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading

April 17, 2018

Literature

A Conversation with Zadie Smith

March 15, 2018

The Roman Colosseum at Dawn.

Literature

The Allure of the Eternal City

March 14, 2018

The Allure of the Eternal City