is John E. Burchard Professor of Science and Writing and senior lecturer in physics at M.I.T. He is the author of Einstein's Dreams.

This summer, he recommends you try:

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
In the title story, an interpreter guides and American family throught the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize.
$12.00 pb   

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
"...both a rare and sorely needed political play and an even rarer, and potentially deeper, play of ideas." -- New York Magazine
$12.00 pb   

A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
"This is written more in the pursuit of learned pleasure than of pedantic knowledge, by a man plainly in love with books and reading...each chapter is a freestanding essay that takes up topics in the history of reading..." -- Kirkus Reviews
$14.95 pb   

The Human Stain by Philip Roth
"A marvel of imaginative empathy, generosity, and tact. Roth's late maturity looks more and more like his golden age." -- Kirkus Reviews
$26.00   

 Books selected specially for the summer by the staff and some literary and scholarly friends of Harvard Book Store.

Pick four...get five!
Buy any four books from this selection and Harvard Book Store will give you a $5 coupon off your next purchase*. Plus, we'll ship your books for free to your domestic summer destination.

See details here.

* coupon redeemable with in-store purchase only

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