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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?"

Literature

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

movies

This Class Bites

May 7, 2019

Portrait of Mark Halliday

Arts & Culture

Poet Mark Halliday Headlines Lowell Poetry Reading Thursday

April 10, 2019

3 portraits who are experts on attraction

Literature

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

Literature

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.

Film & TV

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.

Academics

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

Literature

Marilyn Chin Headlines Tonight’s Robert Lowell Poetry Reading

October 25, 2018

A black and white portrait of George Sanders

Creative Writing

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.

Creative Writing

The Allure of the Eternal City

March 14, 2018

The Allure of the Eternal City