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December 13 3pm	Marjorie Garber Quotation Marks Routledge (Aug 2002) venue TBA free and open to public
December 12 6pm	Billy Collins Nine Horses Random House (Sept 2002) Longfellow Building, Askwith Hall 13 Appian Way, Cambridge free and open to public
December 6 6pm	Al and Tipper Gore Joined at the Heart: the Transformation of the American Family Henry Holt and Co. (Oct 2002) and The Spirit of the Family Henry Holt and Co. (Oct 2002) Longfellow Building, Askwith Hall 13 Appian Way, Cambridge free and open to public
December 6 3pm	Christopher Ricks Allusion to the Poets Oxford University Press (Sep 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
November
November 22 3pm	Gregory Nagy Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenic Festival in Classical Athens Harvard University Press (Oct 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
November 21 6pm	Thom Hartmann Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Dignity Rodale (Oct 2002) Harvard Info Center in the Holyoke Center 1350 Mass. Ave, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
November 19 6pm	Michael Beschloss The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany Simon and Schuster (Nov 2002) Boston Public Library (auditorium TBA) free and open to public
November 18 6pm	Amir Aczel Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics Four Walls Eight Windows (Oct 2002) Harvard Info Center in the Holyoke Center 1350 Mass. Ave, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
November 15 3pm	Linda Gordon The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America and Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence -- Boston, 1880-1960 University of Illinois (Nov 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
November 12	Lucy Jago The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Boralis Vintage Books Phillips Auditorium at the Harvard University Observatory 60 Garden Street, Cambridge free and open to public
November 11 6pm	Michael Ondaatje The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film Knopf in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
November 8 3pm	Jason Kaufman For the Common Good? American Civil Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity Oxford University Press (Nov 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
November 7	Donna Tartt The Little Friend Knopf (Nov 2002) Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge free and open to public
November 6	Mark and Kurt Vonnegut The Eden Express: A Classic Account of Schizophrenia (revised edition) Seven Stories Press (Nov 2002) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets available free of charge at Harvard Book Store information desk.
November 5	Jon Beckwith Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science Harvard University Press (Oct 2002) Harvard Information Center in the Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge free and open to public
November 4	Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: a Cultural History of Russia Metropolitan Books (Oct 2002) Weiner Auditorium, Taubman Building, Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK Street, Cambridge free and open to public
November 1 3pm	Juliet Schor Sustainable Planet: Roadmap for the Twenty-First Century Beacon Press (Nov 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
October
October 31 6pm	David Malouf Remembering Babylon Vintage Books USA (Oct 1994) Thompson Room in the Barker Center, Harvard University 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge free and open to public
October 29 6pm	John Lukacs Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian Yale University Press (Oct 2002) Boston Public Library (auditorium TBA) free and open to public
October 28 6pm	David Rieff A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis Simon and Schuster (Oct 2002) Weiner Auditorium at the Kennedy School Taubman Building 79 JFK Street, Cambridge free and open to public
October 25 3pm	Maria Tatar The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales W. W. Norton (Oct 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
October 24 5pm	Derrick Bell Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth Free Press (Oct 2002) Austin Hall in Austin North, Harvard Law School 1515 Broadway, Cambridge free and open to public
October 23 6pm	Tim O'Brien July, July Houghton Mifflin (Oct 2002) Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall free and open to public
October 22 8pm	Peter Ward Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe Copernicus Books Phillips Auditorium at the Harvard University Observatory 60 Garden Street, Cambridge free and open to public
October 22 6pm	Jay P. Dolan In Search of American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension Oxford University Press (Sep 2002) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
October 21 6pm	Brenda Maddox Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA HarperCollins (Oct 2002) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
October 18 3pm	Helen Horowitz Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America Knopf (Sep 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
October 17 6pm	Daniel Ellsberg Secrets: Revealing the Pentagon Papers : A Memoir Viking Books(Oct 2002) Boston Public Library (auditorium TBA) free and open to public
October 16 6pm	Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sep 2002) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
October 15 6pm	Umberto Eco Baudolino Harcourt (Oct 2002) Askwith Hall free and open to public
October 11 3pm	Elizabeth Spelman Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World Beacon Press (Sep 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
October 9 6pm	Terry Golway So Others Might Live: A History of New York's Bravest -- the FDNY from 1700 to the Present Basic Books (Sep 2002) Boston Public Library (auditorium TBA) free and open to public
October 8 8pm	Robert Kirshner The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos Princeton Publishing Company (Oct 2002) Phillips Auditorium at the Harvard University Observatory 60 Garden Street, Cambridge free and open to public
October 8 6pm	Mark Edmundson Teacher Random House (Aug 2002) Harvard Info Center in the Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
October 4 3pm	Janice Irvine Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States University of California Press (Sep 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
October 3 6pm	Thomas L. Friedman Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sep 2002) Boston Public Library (auditorium TBA) free and open to public
October 2 6pm	Natasha Staller A Sum of Destructions: Picasso's Cultures and the Creation of Cubism Yale University Press Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
October 1 6pm	Sven Birkerts My Blue Sky Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time Viking Press (Aug 2002) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
September
September 30 6pm	Martin Garbus Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law Times Books Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
September 27 3pm	Todd D. Rakoff A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life Harvard University Press in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
September 26 8pm	Timothy Ferris Seeing In The Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril Simon and Schuster (Sep 2002) Phillips Auditorium, Harvard College Observatory 60 Garden Street, Cambridge free and open to public
September 25	Marc Gopin Holy War Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East Oxford University Press Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library 300 North Harvard St., Allston Parking is available
September 24 6pm	Jonathan Franzen The Corrections Picador USA (paperback, Sep 2002) and How To Be Alone: Essays Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Oct 2002) Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public
September 23 6pm	Jeremy Rifkin The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth Tarcher, Penguin Putnam Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
September 20 3pm	Stanley Rosen The Elusiveness of The Ordinary: Studies in the Possibility of Philosophy Yale University Press (Aug 2002) in the store 1256 Massachusetts Ave free and open to public
September 19 6pm	Alan Dershowitz Why Terrorism Works Yale University Press (Sep 2002) Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public
September 18 6pm	Paul Auster Book of Illusions Henry Holt (Sep 2002) Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge tickets available in store 4 weeks before event
September 17 6pm	Gary Hart Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st Century America Oxford University Press Askwith Hall, Longfellow Hall 13 Appian Way, Cambridge free and open to public
September 12 6pm	Deborah Meier In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization Beacon Press Boston Public Library, Mezzanine Conference Room 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public
September 10 6pm	Howard Bryant Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston Routledge Boston Public Library, Mezzanine Conference Room 700 Boylston Street, Boston free and open to public


Tuesday June 18 6pm	Stephen Carter The Emperor of Ocean Park Cambridge Public Library, Sakey Lecture Hall 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Tuesday June 11 6pm	Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston No tickets are required.
May
Tuesday May 21 6pm	Robert Reich I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston No tickets are required.
Thursday May 16 6pm	Jamaica Kincaid Mr. Potter Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston No tickets are required.
Wednesday May 15 6pm	Nicholas Dawidoff The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets are required.
Tuesday May 14 6pm	Robert Caro Master of the Senate: the Years of Lyndon Johnson Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston No tickets are required.
Thursday May 9 6pm	Carol Gilligan The Birth of Pleasure Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets are required.
Wednesday May 8 6pm	John Esposito Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam Askwith Lecture Hall Longfellow Hall, 13 Apian Way No tickets are required.
Wednesday May 8 6pm	Tamim Ansary West of Kabul, East of New York Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets are required.
Tuesday May 7 6pm	Andrea Lee Interesting Women: Stories Harvard Information Center, Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Tickets are required.
Monday May 6 6pm	Edna O'Brien In the Forest Askwith Lecture Hall Longfellow Hall, 13 Apian Way No tickets are required.
Thursday May 2 6pm	Francis Fukuyama Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets are required. The great social philosopher examines how the coming biotech revolution will affect our liberal democracy.
Wednesday May 1 6pm	Steven Wise Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets are required. Co-sponsored by Student Animal Legal Defense Fund: a Student Organization of Harvard Law School and the Friends of the Harvard Art Museums Harvard's Steven Wise is the world's foremost expert on the legal rights of animals and has devoted his life to litigating, writing, and working on their behalf.
Tuesday April 30 7:30pm	Eileen Myles, author of Skies: New Poems and Cool For You Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Lesbian and Gay Studies Seminar Humanities Center, Barker Center, room 110 12 Quincy Street No tickets are required. Myles is a well-known underground literary figure. Her poetry and performance art focus on gay and feminist issues and she has been the Director of NYC's St. Mark's Poetry Project.
April
Tuesday April 30 6pm	Frank Conroy, author of Dogs Bark, But the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston No tickets are required.
Thursday April 25 6pm	Janet Sternburg, author of Phantom Limb: A Memoir Cosponsored by the Friends of the Harvard Art Museums Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets are required.
Wednesday April 24 6pm	Michael Frayn, author of Spies: A Novel Cosponsored by the Friends of the Harvard Art Museums Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Tickets are required.
Friday April 19 3pm FRIDAY FORUM	Yunte Huang, author of Transpacific Displacements: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue No tickets are required.
Thursday April 18 6pm	Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, author of Old Money Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston No tickets are required.
Tuesday April 16 6pm	Mary Pipher, author of The Middle of Everywhere: The World's Refugees Come to Our Town Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston No tickets are required.
Monday April 15 6pm	Andrew Miller, author of the novel Oxygen Harvard Information Center, Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Tickets are required.
Friday April 12 3pm	Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue No tickets are required.
Thursday April 11 7pm	Atul Gawande, author of Complications: a Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston No tickets are required.
Friday April 5 3pm	William Gienapp Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America and The Fiery Trial: the Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue No tickets are required.
Wednesday April 3 7am COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE BREAKFAST	Daniel Goleman, co-author of Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence Regattabar at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge Ticket price of $90 includes a continental breakfast and a personally autographed copy of the author's book.
Tuesday April 2 6pm	Carol Wagner Soul Survivors: Stories of Women and Children in Cambodia Co-sponsored by Amnesty International Harvard Information Center Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Tickets are required.


Friday Forum March 15 3pm	Richard Chait The Questions of Tenure Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Thursday March 14 6pm	Elizabeth Neuffer The Key to My Neighbor's House: Searching for Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda Cosponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government Littauer Building, L280 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Wednesday March 13 6pm	James Charles Roy The Back of Beyond: A Search for the Soul of Ireland Rabb Hall, Boston Public Library 700 Boylston Street, Boston
Monday March 11 6pm	James D. Watson Genes, Girls and Gamow: After the Double Helix Cosponsored by the Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Sanders Theater 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Friday Forum March 8 3pm	Jill Lepore A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Tuesday March 5 6pm	Sara Hall Drawn to the Rhythm: A Passionate Life Reclaimed Harvard Information Center at the Holyoke Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Monday March 4 6:15pm	Samantha Power A Problem from Hell: America's Failure to Prevent Genocide Cosponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government Weiner Auditorium, Taubman Center at the Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK St, Cambridge
Friday Forum March 1 3pm	Richard Kearney On Stories: Thinking in Action Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
February
Tuesday February 26 6pm	Lani Guinier The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy co-hosted by Harvard Law School journal Civil Rights, Civil Liberties Harvard Law School, Austin Hall East 1515 Mass Ave Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Terming their concept "political race," Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy.
Monday February 25 6pm	David Huddle La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl Harvard Info Center The Holyoke Center, 1350 Mass Ave, Cambridge David Huddle tells a provocative story involving the life of the mysterious painter Georges de La Tour and the echoes of his work across time.
Wednesday February 20 6pm	Mark Kurlansky Salt: A World History Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Homer called salt a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Today we take it for granted; however, as Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates in this world-encompassing book, salt--the only rock we eat -- has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind.
Tuesday February 19 6pm	Elio Frattaroli, M.D. Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge Frattaroli writes with spirit, combining a Renaissance sensibility with an unshakable humanism that shows why tapping into the soul is the highest quest on which we can embark. His references hark back to Shakespeare, to Freud, to Descartes and Bohr; in drawing upon physics, philosophy, literature, and psychology, and by using riveting case histories from his own life and practice, Frattaroli illuminates some of the most complex intellectual discoveries of our time.
Friday Forum February 15 3pm	Allen Counter Neuroscientist at Harvard University and founder of the Harvard Foundation North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Thursday February 14 6pm	bell hooks Communion: The Female Search for Love Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman needs to have. And this conversation guides us - mothers, daughters, friends, and lovers - on one of our most life-affirming journeys. This should be a inspirational event and I hope to see lots of you there.
Wednesday February 13 6pm	David Edmonds Wittgenstein's Poker Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge This engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography and literary detection has been winning rave reviews with its depiction of Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein, these influential, larger-than-life men and the world in which they lived.
Tuesday February 12 6pm	Randall Kennedy Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street, Boston In this tour de force, distinguished Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy-author of the highly acclaimed Race, Crime, and the Law - "put[s] a tracer on nigger," to identify how it has been used and by whom, while analyzing the controversies to which it has given rise.
Friday Forum February 8 3pm	Barbara Lewalski Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at Harvard University The Life of John Milton Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Friday February 8 6pm	Donald Sassoon Becoming Mona Lisa: The Making of a Global Icon Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge This richly historic and lavishly illustrated book tells how a single painting became the greatest masterpiece in the history of art and an icon of popular culture.
Thursday February 7 6pm	Allen Counter North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo Boston Public Library, Mezzanine Conference Room 700 Boylston Street, Boston Upon hearing rumors that the men who discovered the North Pole had fathered sons while on their expedition, Allen Counter arranged to visit the remote villages where Robert Peary, the credited discoverer, and Matthew Henson, the black man whose contributions to the expedition are widely ignored, stayed during their travels.
Wednesday February 6 6pm	E. O. Wilson The Future of Life Sackler Museum 485 Broadway, Cambridge From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet: an impassioned call for quick and decisive action to save Earth's biological heritage, and a plan to achieve that rescue.
Monday February 4 4:15pm	Raja Shehadeh Strangers in the House: The Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine Cosponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Pound 106 1536 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge This "is not a political book," Anthony Lewis writes in his foreword. "Yet in a hundred different ways it is political.... Shehadeh shatters the stereotype many Americans have of Palestinians. Hath not a Palestinian senses, affections, passions?" This revealing memoir of a father-son relationship, the first of its kind by a Palestinian living in the occupied territories, is set against the backdrop of Middle East hostilities and more than thirty years of life under military occupation.
January
Thursday January 17 6pm	Strobe Talbott, et al. The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11 Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall Edited by former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda, The Age of Terror brings together members of the Yale University's Center for the Study of Globalization to examines the considerations and objectives of policy decisions in post-September 11 America.
Tuesday January 15 6pm	Alex Beam Gracefully Insane: the Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today.