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September 28, 2012

Steven Johnson

discusses Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age
September 28, 2012

Natalie Hopkinson

discusses Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
September 27, 2012

Junot Diaz

discusses This Is How You Lose Her
September 21, 2012

Daniel Kantstroom

discusses Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora
September 11, 2012

Bob Spitz

discusses Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
September 4, 2012

Theda Skocpol

discusses Obama and America's Political Future
May 15, 2012

Dennis Thompson

discusses The Spirit of Compromise
May 14, 2012

Béatrice Peltre

discusses La Tartine Gourmande
May 8, 2012

James K. Galbraith

discusses Inequality and Instability.
May 7, 2012

Paul Krugman

discusses End This Depression Now! with Tom Ashbrook
May 4, 2012

Loung Ung

discusses Lulu in the Sky
May 4, 2012

Kenneth W. Mack

discusses Representing the Race
May 2, 2012

Alison Bechdel

discusses Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
April 5, 2012

Hanne Blank

discusses Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality
April 1, 2012

Rachel Maddow

discusses Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
March 21, 2012

Daron Acemoglu

discusses Why Nations Fail
March 7, 2012

The Future of Black Politics

A panel discussion with Michael Dawson and William Julius Wilson, moderated by Eugene Rivers
February 17, 2012

Dimitar Sasselov

discusses The Life of Super-Earths
February 7, 2012

Sebastian Seung

discusses Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
February 1, 2012

William Bratton & Zachary Tumin

discuss Collaborate or Perish!
January 31, 2012

Jodi Kantor

discusses The Obamas
January 27, 2012

David Weinberger

discusses Too Big To Know
January 5, 2012

Thomas Frank

discusses Pity the Billionaire
November 4, 2011

Tom Brokaw

discusses The Time of Our Lives
October 29, 2011

Glenn Greenwald & Noam Chomsky

discuss With Liberty and Justice for Some
October 18, 2011

Ron Suskind

discusses Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
September 30, 2011

John Lithgow

discusses Drama: An Actor's Education
July 7, 2011

Jess Martin

discusses her memoir Open Eyed Sneeze, printed here at Harvard Book Store!
March 11, 2011

James Carroll

discusses Jerusalem, Jerusalem
March 10, 2011

Sean Dorrance Kelly

discusses All Things Shining
March 4, 2011

Maya Jasanoff

discusses Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
February 25, 2011

Siva Vaidhyanathan

discusses The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)
February 24, 2011

Dani Rodrik

discusses The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
February 23, 2011

Joseph O’Connor

reads from Ghost Light
February 22, 2011

Amy Chua

discusses Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
February 18, 2011

Izzeldin Abuelaish

discusses I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
February 17, 2011

Parag Khanna

discusses How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
February 14, 2011

Dambisa Moyo

discusses How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead
February 10, 2011

Daniel Rasmussen

discusses American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
February 9, 2011

Peter Hessler

discusses Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
February 7, 2011

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

discusses The Storyteller of Marrakesh
February 4, 2011

Sherry Turkle

discusses Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
January 27, 2011

Robert and Ellen Kaplan

discuss Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
January 25, 2011

Amy Bloom

reads from Where the God of Love Hangs Out
January 24, 2011

Seth Mnookin

discusses The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
January 22, 2011

Christian Lander

discusses Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews
January 20, 2011

Allen Shawn

discusses Twin: A Memoir
January 19, 2011

Ida Hattemer-Higgins

reads from The History of History
January 18, 2011

Mira Bartók

discusses The Memory Palace: A Memoir
January 14, 2011

Richard Wolffe

discusses Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House
January 10, 2011

Barbara Almond

discusses The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood
December 9, 2010

Joanne Chang

Chef Joanne Chang discusses Flour
December 8, 2010

Carlos Eire

Carlos Eire discusses Learning to Die in Miami
December 7, 2010

Harold McGee

Harold McGee discusses Keys to Good Cooking
December 7, 2010

Chris Kimball

The cast of America's Test Kitchen discusses their Healthy Family Cookbook
December 2, 2010

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses The Emperor of All Maladies
December 1, 2010

David Edwards

David Edwards discusses The Lab: Creativity and Culture
November 29, 2010

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie discusses Luka and the Fire of Life
November 19, 2010

Rebecca M. Jordan-Young

Rebecca M. Jordan-Young discusses Brain Storm
November 18, 2010

Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever discusses Louisa May Alcott
November 17, 2010

Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat discusses Create Dangerously
November 16, 2010

Hazel Rowley

Hazel Rowley discusses Franklin and Eleanor
November 15, 2010

Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt discusses Shakespeare's Freedom
November 10, 2010

Alex Ross

Alex Ross discusses Listen to This
November 9, 2010

Paul Auster

Paul Auster reads from his novel Sunset Park
November 5, 2010

Tim Wu

Tim Wu discusses The Master Switch
November 4, 2010

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses The Honor Code
November 3, 2010

The Best American Short Stories 2010

Series editor Heidi Pitlor joins guest editor, Richard Russo, and contributors Brendan Mathews and Steve Almond
November 2, 2010

Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton discusses Poetry and the Police
November 1, 2010

Gal Beckerman

Gal Beckerman discusses When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
October 29, 2010

Ian Morris

Ian Morris discusses Why the West Rules--For Now
October 28, 2010

Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks discusses The Mind's Eye
October 26, 2010

The Best American Essays 2010

Series editor Robert Atwan joins contributors John Summers and Jerald Walker
October 25, 2010

Robert Kaplan

Robert Kaplan discusses Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
October 22, 2010

V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul discusses The Masque of Africa
October 20, 2010

Charles Burns

Charles Burns discusses X'ed Out
October 18, 2010

Niel Landau

Niel Landau discusses 101 Things I Learned in Film School
October 16, 2010

Nancy Rappaport

Nancy Rappaport discusses In Her Wake
October 15, 2010

Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder discusses Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
October 12, 2010

Amir Aczel

Amir Aczel discusses Present at the Creation
October 8, 2010

Frank Dikotter

Frank Dikotter discusses Mao's Great Famine
October 7, 2010

Deborah Fallows

Deborah Fallows discusses Dreaming in Chinese
October 5, 2010

David Kessler

David Kessler discusses The End of Overeating
September 30, 2010

Stephen Breyer

Justice Stephen Breyer discusses Making Our Democracy Work
September 28, 2010

James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler discusses The Witch of Hebron
September 24, 2010

Robert Reich

Robert Reich discusses Aftershock
September 23, 2010

Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan discuss The Fall
September 22, 2010

Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold discusses The Tenth Parallel
September 21, 2010

Mary Catherine Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson discusses Composing a Further Life
September 20, 2010

Daniel Kehlmann

Daniel Kehlmann discusses Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes
September 17, 2010

Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis

Yau and Nadis discuss The Shape of Inner Space
September 16, 2010

Gwynne Dyer

Gwynne Dyer discusses Climate Wars
September 15, 2010

Tony Blair

Tony Blair discusses his memoir, A Journey, with Tina Brown
September 14, 2010

Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson discusses The Warmth of Other Suns
September 13, 2010

Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington discusses Third World America
August 12, 2010

Gail Caldwell

Gail Caldwell discusses Let's Take the Long Way Home
August 4, 2010

Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead discusses Sag Harbor
August 2, 2010

Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen discusses Star Island
July 28, 2010

Maile Meloy

Maile Meloy discusses Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
July 27, 2010

Howard Norman

Howard Norman discusses What Is Left the Daughter
July 22, 2010

William Powers

William Powers discusses Hamlet's Blackberry
July 21, 2010

Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner discusses Fly Away Home
July 20, 2010

Victor K. McElheny

Victor K. McElheny discusses Drawing the Map of Life
July 19, 2010

Amy McCoy

Amy McCoy discusses Poor Girl Gourmet
July 15, 2010

Adam Ross

Adam Ross discusses Mr. Peanut
July 13, 2010

Herbert Benson

Dr. Herbert Benson discusses The Relaxation Revolution
July 8, 2010

Oren Harman

Oren Harman discusses The Price of Altruism
July 6, 2010

Jessica Stern

Jessica Stern discusses her memoir Denial
June 29, 2010

Tom Bissell

Tom Bissell discusses Extra Lives
June 28, 2010

Nicholas Carr

Nicolas Carr discusses The Shallows
June 25, 2010

Laura Eldridge

Laura Eldridge discusses In Our Control
June 24, 2010

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis discusses Imperial Bedrooms
June 21, 2010

Luis Urrea

Luis Urrea discusses Into the Beautiful North
June 18, 2010

Kathryn Schulz

Kathryn Schulz discusses Being Wrong
June 17, 2010

Belle Boggs

Belle Boggs discusses Mattaponi Queen
June 12, 2010

William Powers

William Powers discusses Twelve By Twelve
June 11, 2010

Philip Gambone

Philip Gambone discusses Travels in a Gay Nation
June 10, 2010

Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely discusses The Upside of Irrationality
June 9, 2010

Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie discusses Walks with Men
June 8, 2010

Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer discusses Reset
June 7, 2010

Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger discusses War
June 2, 2010

Daniel Carlat

Daniel Carlat discusses Unhinged
May 27, 2010

Kim Severson

Kim Severson discusses Spoon Fed
May 18, 2010

Wes Moore

Wes Moore discusses The Other Wes Moore
May 17, 2010

Unity Dow

Unity Dow discusses Saturday Is For Funerals
May 13, 2010

Norris Church Mailer

Norris Mailer discusses A Ticket to the Circus
May 12, 2010

Daniel Okrent

Daniel Okrent discusses Last Call
May 10, 2010

Nino Ricci

Nino Ricce discusses The Origin of Species
May 6, 2010

Stephen Prothero

Stephen Prothero discusses God Is Not One
May 5, 2010

Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk discusses Tell-All
May 3, 2010

Robin Black

Robin Black discusses If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
April 30, 2010

Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben discusses Eaarth
April 29, 2010

David Remnick

David Remnick discusses The Bridge
April 28, 2010

E.O. Wilson

E.O. Wilson discusses Anthill
April 27, 2010

Anna Lappe

Anna Lappe discusses Diet for a Hot Planet
April 26, 2010

Peter Carey

Peter Carey discusses Parrot and Olivier in America
April 23, 2010

Christopher Ricks

Christopher Ricks discusses True Friendship
April 22, 2010

Leo Damrosch

Leo Damrosch discusses Tocqueville's Discovery Of America
April 21, 2010

Dash Shaw and Paul Karasik

Dash Shaw and Paul Karasik discuss BodyWorld
April 20, 2010

Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky discusses The Eastern Stars
April 17, 2010

Mark Oppenheimer

Mark Oppenheimer discusses Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate
April 16, 2010

Steve Almond

Steve Almond discusses Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life
April 15, 2010

Yann Martel

Yann Martel discusses Beatrice and Virgil
April 14, 2010

Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn discusses C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
April 13, 2010

Robert Whitaker

Robert Whitaker discusses Anatomy of an Epidemic
April 8, 2010

Elaine Scarry

Elaine Scarry discusses Rule of Law, Misrule of Men
April 7, 2010

Jeff Shesol

Jeff Shesol discusses Supreme Power
April 6, 2010

Adam Schwartzman

Adam Schwartzman discusses Eddie Signwriter
April 5, 2010

Helen Vendler

Helen Vendler discusses Last Looks, Last Books
April 2, 2010

Simon Johnson and James Kwak

Simon Johnson and James Kwak discuss 13 Bankers
April 1, 2010

Deborah Amos

Deborah Amos discusses Eclipse of the Sunnis
March 31, 2010

June Erlick

June Erlick discusses A Gringa in Bogota
March 29, 2010

Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter discusses The History of White People
March 26, 2010

Martha Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum discusses From Disgust to Humanity
March 25, 2010

Tim O’Brien

Tim O'Brien discusses The Things They Carried
March 24, 2010

Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley discusses Known to Evil
March 23, 2010

Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe

Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe weigh in on The Great God Debate
March 22, 2010

Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill discusses Don't Cry
March 10, 2010

Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee discusses The Surrendered
March 9, 2010

Jerome Charyn

Jerome Charyn discusses The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
March 8, 2010

Eric Nelson

Eric Nelson discusses The Hebrew Republic
March 2, 2010

Paula Butterini

Paula Butterini discusses Keeping the Feast
February 25, 2010

Anna Lawrence Pietroni

Anna Lawrence discusses Ruby's Spoon
February 23, 2010

John Banville

John Banville discusses The Infinities
February 19, 2010

Steven Yarborough

Steven Yarborough discusses Safe From the Neighbors
February 17, 2010

Kevin Sampsell and Justin Taylor

Kevin Sampsell and Justin Taylor discuss A Common Pornography and Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever
February 16, 2010

Steve Almond 101

Steve Almond reads from This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey
February 9, 2010

Shankar Vedantam

Shankar Vedantam discusses The Hidden Brain
February 8, 2010

John Callahan and Adam Bradley

John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before the Shooting
February 3, 2010

Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton discusses The Case for Books
February 2, 2010

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Rebecca Goldstein discusses 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
February 1, 2010

Thomas Ricks

Thomas Ricks discusses The Gamble
January 30, 2010

Robert S. Lyons

Robert S. Lyons discusses On Any Given Sunday
January 27, 2010

David Walker

David Walker discusses Comeback America
January 25, 2010

Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz discusses Freefall
January 20, 2010

Charlotte Dennett

Charlotte Dennett discusses The People V. Bush
January 19, 2010

Elizabeth Kostova

Elizabeth Kostova discusses The Swan Thieves
January 14, 2010

Don Lattin

Don Lattin discusses The Harvard Psychedelic Club
January 13, 2010

Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier discusses You Are Not a Gadget
January 11, 2010

Raj Patel

Raj Patel discusses The Value of Nothing
January 8, 2010

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough discuss All Things at Once
January 7, 2010

Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande discusses The Checklist Manifesto
January 6, 2010

Daniel Pink

Daniel Pink discusses Drive
December 10, 2009

David Chang

David Chang discusses Momofuku
December 4, 2009

John Cassidy

John Cassidy discusses, How Markets Fail
December 3, 2009

Harry Evans and Jason Epstein

Harry Evans and Jason Epstein discuss My Paper Chase and Eating
November 24, 2009

Kristin Cashore

Kristin Cashore discusses Fire
November 20, 2009

James Schwartz

James Schwartz discusses In Pursuit of the Gene
November 19, 2009

Gordon Wood

Gordon Wood discusses Empire of Liberty
November 16, 2009

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow discusses Makers
November 12, 2009

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses Colored People
November 10, 2009

Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali discusses The Idea of Communism
November 7, 2009

Al Gore

Al Gore discusses Our Choice
November 6, 2009

Mary Karr

Mary Karr discusses Lit
November 6, 2009

Rana Husseini

Rana Husseini discusses Murder in the Name of Honor
November 2, 2009

Danuta Borchardt

Danuta Borchardt discusses her translation of Pornografia
October 30, 2009

Lisa Rosner

Lisa Rosner discusses The Anatomy Murders
October 29, 2009

Harriet Reisen

Harriet Reisen discusses Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
October 29, 2009

Stephen Dubner

Stephen Dubner discusses Superfreakonomics
October 28, 2009

Christos Papadimitriou

Christos Papadimitriou discusses Logicomix
October 25, 2009

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood discusses The Year of the Flood
October 23, 2009

Morris Dickstein

Morris Dickstein discusses Dancing in the Dark
October 23, 2009

Thomas Cathcart

Thomas Cathcart discusses Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates
October 21, 2009

James Orbinski

James Orbinski discuses An Imperfect Offering
October 20, 2009

Edwin Frank

Edwin Frank discusses The Journal of Henry David Thoreau
October 15, 2009

Barbara Enrenreich

Barbara Enrenreich discusses Bright-Sided
October 13, 2009

John Freeman

John Freeman discusses The Tyranny of Email
October 12, 2009

Nicholas Christakis

Nicholas Christakis discusses Connected
October 8, 2009

Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch discusses The Clinton Tapes
October 7, 2009

Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine discusses The Hakawati
October 6, 2009

Jill McCorkle

Jill McCorkle discusses Going Away Shoes
October 2, 2009

Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong discusses The Case for God
September 30, 2009

Tad Friend

Tad Friend discusses Cheerful Money

December 19, 2013

Don’t Watch This If You Are a Bookseller’s Cousin or Mom

What is our discerning staff giving for the holidays?
September 7, 2012

Carole

recommends The Jazz Standards
July 31, 2012

Kari

recommends Anno Dracula
July 6, 2012

Aaron

recommends The Plague
June 1, 2012

Jamie

recommends Darth Vader and Son
September 22, 2011

Minimum Paige: A Harvard Book Store Comic Anthology

A project this heroic could only be accomplished by the most dynamic of duos.
September 16, 2011

Lucy the Wonder-Pup Picks the Booker

Can this adorable puppy predict the winner of the Man Booker Prize?
August 26, 2011

Suzanne

recommends The Forsyte Saga.
August 19, 2011

Kari

recommends Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
July 29, 2011

Craig

recommends Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas
July 2, 2011

Jon

recommends Super Sad True Love Story
June 3, 2011

Steve

recommends The Eyre Affair
May 27, 2011

Alex

recommends the Baseball Field Guide
May 20, 2011

Linden

recommends Doctor Zhivago
May 13, 2011

Ryan

recommends The Arctic Marauder
April 21, 2011

Mark

recommends The Fiery Trial and Rites of Spring
February 2, 2011

HBTV Presents: Don’t be an iPhoney

Buy where you shop.
January 21, 2011

HBTV Presents: Jurassic Books

A short film that ponders the possibilities of a large scale book printing robot...
January 14, 2011

HBTV Is On The Air!

Cambridge's only local, fictional television station that's based out of an independent book store.
November 3, 2010

Rachel

recommends Let the Great World Spin
October 27, 2010

Mike

recommends Transit Maps of the World
October 20, 2010

Kari

recommends Love is the Higher Law
October 13, 2010

Lizzy

recommends Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
October 6, 2010

Lillian

recommends The Adderall Diaries
September 29, 2010

Geoff

recommends In Search of Lost Time
September 22, 2010

Frances

recommends The Annotated Secret Garden
September 15, 2010

Churchill

recommends Shades of Grey
September 8, 2010

Carole

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September 1, 2010

Andy

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