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

Alumni

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

December 3, 2024

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Books

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

August 7, 2024

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Books

Reading List: What the Pandemic Revealed

March 22, 2024

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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

Alumni

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

July 9, 2019

Humanities

Author Elizabeth McCracken Hates Elves, Loves Fortune Cookies

July 9, 2019

Alumni

How to Create Suspense

July 9, 2019

Literature

Book Reviews

February 19, 2019

Book Reviews