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Literature

Boston University BU, Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes, Ani Gjika,

Alumni

Poems That Invoke Cultural Figures, from Harriet Tubman to Dr. Seuss

February 20, 2013

The Feminine Mystique book by author Betty Friedan, 50th anniversary of Feminine Mystique

Literature

Friedan’s Feminine Mystique Turns 50

February 12, 2013

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Faculty

Machiavelli’s The Prince: Still Relevant after All These Years

February 6, 2013

Carrie Preston, associate professor of English, Boston University, Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance book, Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and the Pedagogies of Transnational Performance book

Dance

Linking the Ivory Tower with the Street

January 29, 2013

Boston University BU, nobel laureate Elie Wiesel interview, new novel memoir, Open Heart, Hostage

Faculty

Nobel Laureate Wiesel on His New Novel, Memoir

December 10, 2012

The Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, Pulitzer-winning poet C. K. Williams, Eleanor Goodman, poetry reading, The Castle

Poetry

Lowell Poetry Series Presents “Fellini of the Written Word”

December 6, 2012

Tom Lyons, New England Mobile Book Fair

Literature

Crazy? The Man Bought a Bookstore

November 8, 2012

Three Encounters with Elie Wiesel The Fascination with Jewish Tales annual lecture series, Boston University Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor, author

lectures

Annual Elie Wiesel Lecture Series Begins Tonight

October 15, 2012

Hanna Rosin author of The End of Men And the Rise of Women book, dominant human gender

Health & Medicine

The End of Men: True or False?

October 12, 2012

Running Ransom Road Confronting the Past One Marathon at a Time book by author Caleb Daniloff, running, jogging, marathons, alcoholism

Books

Confronting the Past, One Marathon at a Time

October 9, 2012

Boston University BU psychology professor Donna Pincus, Growing Up Brave: Expert Strategies for Helping Your Child Overcome Fear, Stress, and Anxiety, childhood anxiety stress and stress

Health & Medicine

When the World Is Scarier Than It Should Be

October 3, 2012

Sylvia Nasar's new book details how economists developed anti-poverty strategies.

lectures

Sylvia Nasar’s Grand Pursuit

September 25, 2012

The Kings’ Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin by Elizabeth Goldsmith, College of Arts & Sciences CAS professor

Literature

17th-Century Sisters the Kardashians Might Admire

August 27, 2012

Sin the early history of an idea by Paula Fredriksen, Christian views on original sin

Books

Evolving Ideas of Sin

August 6, 2012

Ben Mezrich author sex on the moon the amazing story behind the most audacious heist in history accidental billionaires book

Boston

Sex on the Moon

July 16, 2012

Stephen Prothero author of The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation book

Politics

In Arguing We Trust

June 28, 2012

Forgotten Chapters of Boston’s Literary History exhibit at Boston Public Library

Event Preview

Discover the Forgotten Chapters of Boston’s Literary History

June 13, 2012

Jay Atkinson author, Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man: Guts, Glory and Blood in the World’s Greatest Game, Ice Time, Legends of Winter Hill book

Arts & Culture

Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man

June 1, 2012

Author Justin Halpern, I Suck at Girls book, Shit Sh*t My Dad Says

Film & TV

Sht My Dad Says* Author Reads Tonight

May 29, 2012

Boston University Mugar Library books stacks, digital library, digital books

Arts & Culture

Mugar on a Microchip?

May 4, 2012

Mugar on a Microchip?