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February 2019 Events

Friday, Feb. 1 / 3:00pm Tuesday, Feb. 5 / 6:00pm Wednesday, Feb. 6 / 7:00pm Friday, Feb. 8 / 3:00pm Lawrence Lessig Howard Schultz Kim McLarin Ellen Winner America, Compromised From the Ground Up: Womanish: How Art Works: A Journey to Reimagine the A Grown Black Woman Speaks on A Psychological Exploration Friday Forum: Ethics in Your World Promise of America Love and Life Friday Forum @ Harvard Book Store in conversation with JAMES FALLOWS @ Harvard Book Store @ Harvard Book Store professor Lawrence THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Acclaimed local writer Kim McLarin— Lessig—author of The Future of Award-winning psychologist Ellen Winner author of Meeting of the Waters and Ideas and Code and Other Laws of discusses philosophical puzzles about @ the Brattle Theatre | 40 Brattle St. Jump at the Sun—discusses her new Cyberspace—discusses his latest book, the arts—what makes something art, essay collection, which explores what it a sweeping indictment of contemporary and how we decide what is good art—by means to be a black woman in today’s American institutions and the corruption pm examining empirical research. Tuesday, Feb. 5 / 7:00 turbulent times. that besets them. This event is co- sponsored by Mass Humanities and the Whitney Scharer pm Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at The Age of Light: pm Friday, Feb. 8 / 7:00 . Thursday, Feb. 7 / 7:00 A Novel Douglas Rushkoff Leland de la Durantaye with an introduction by JENNA BLUM Hannah Versus the Tree: pm Team Human Friday, Feb. 1 / 7:00 A Novel New Voices in Fiction in conversation with GREG M. EPSTEIN Katherine S. Newman New Voices in Fiction @ Harvard Book Store Downhill from Here: @ Harvard Book Store @ Harvard Book Store Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Local writer Whitney Scharer discusses her Digital theorist, award-winning author, and Inequality highly anticipated debut novel, a portrait podcast host Douglas Rushkoff discusses Critic, translator, and professor Leland de of the Vogue model turned photographer la Durantaye discusses his debut novel, @ Harvard Book Store his latest book, a manifesto of his most Lee Miller and Surrealist Man Ray. She’ll urgent thoughts on civilization and a story of vengeance and lifelong love Award-winning writer and sociologist be introduced by the author of Those Who human nature—in particular, that we are which introduces a new literary genre: , Jenna Blum. This event is co- Katherine S. Newman, the author of No Save Us social creatures and achieve our greatest the mythopoetic thriller. This event is sponsored by GrubStreet. Shame in My Game: The Working Poor aspirations when working together. co-sponsored by GrubStreet. in the Inner City, discusses the looming He’ll be joined by Greg M. Epstein, the “Written in an immaculate, lyrically financial catastrophe of retirement in Wednesday, Feb. 6 / 6:00pm Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and charged, uncannily autonomous prose, America and what it might take to fix it. MIT. This event is co-sponsored by The this lovely novel is at once a modern Humanist Hub. “With great skill and compelling Jason Rezaian story about money and politics and evidence, [Newman] explains why most Prisoner: “A provocative, exciting, and important sexual violence, and an ancient fable of of the boomer generation doesn’t have My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison— rallying cry to reassert our human spirit grievance and justice.” —James Wood enough money to retire on while CEOs Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, of community and teamwork.” and others at the top are socking away a High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the —Walter Isaacson pm fortune.” —Robert Reich Monday, Feb. 11 / 7:00 Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out Thursday, Feb. 7 / 7:00pm Lindsey Mead Monday, Feb. 4 / 7:00pm On Being 40(ish) in conversation with Marlon James Narayan Helen Liebenson JULIETTE KAYYEM in conversation with contributors KJ Black Leopard, Red Wolf DELL’ANTONIA, JESSICA LAHEY, The Magnanimous Heart: $6 tickets $8 tickets CATHERINE NEWMAN, and Compassion and Love, Loss and @ the Brattle Theatre | 40 Brattle St. SOPHFRONIA SCOTT Grief, Joy and Liberation @ First Parish Church Journalist Jason Rezaian—the Washington 1446 Mass. Ave. @ Harvard Book Store @ Harvard Book Store Post correspondent in Tehran from 2012 Marlon James, the Man Booker Prize– Editor Lindsey Mead and local Narayan Helen Liebenson, a guiding to 2016—discusses his new memoir, an winning author of A Brief History of contributors discuss On Being 40(ish), teacher at the Cambridge Insight account of being held hostage in a Tehran Seven Killings, discusses the highly an essay collection offering intimate and Meditation Center, discusses her debut prison, and how his release became part anticipated first novel in his new Dark candid explorations about turning forty— book, which illustrates how to skillfully of the Iran nuclear deal. He’ll be joined by Star trilogy—a fantasy epic about a and life beyond. respond to painful human emotions homeland security expert Juliette Kayyem. mercenary hired to find a missing child. through the art of meditative inquiry. “Charming, relatable, and wise essays.” “A deep dive into a complex and “A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient —Publishers Weekly “Narayan draws on a wisdom that shines egregiously misunderstood country with Africa, which becomes a fantasy world through on every page of this deeply two very different faces. There is no better as well-realized as anything Tolkien compassionate book.” —Robert Wright time to know more about Iran—and Jason Rezaian has seen both of those faces.” made, with language as powerful as —Anthony Bourdain Angela Carter’s . . . I cannot wait for the next installment.” —Neil Gaiman February 2019 Events, continued

Tuesday, Feb. 12 / 7:00pm Monday, Feb. 18 / Friday, Feb. 22 / 7:00pm Wednesday, Feb. 27 / 7:00pm am pm Maggie Battista 11:00 —7:00 James Sturm Sandra Newman A New Way to Food: Warehouse Clearance Sale Off Season The Heavens 100 Recipes to Encourage a @ Harvard Book Store Warehouse in conversation with HILLARY CHUTE @ Harvard Book Store Healthy Relationship with Food, 14 Park Street, Somerville Nourish Your Beautiful Body, and @ Harvard Book Store Acclaimed writer Sandra Newman— Celebrate Real Wellness for Life We’re opening the doors to our Warehouse author of The Country of Ice Cream Star for one day only! Explore thousands of Celebrated cartoonist and educator —discusses her latest novel, a love story @ Harvard Book Store remainders and used books at 20% off. James Sturm discusses his new graphic about a young woman whose recurring novel, a long-form narrative which charts dream of an alternate life becomes Celebrated cookbook author Maggie one couple’s divisive separation during increasingly real and compelling. Battista—founder and director of Eat Tuesday, Feb. 19 / 7:00pm the 2016 election months. He’ll be joined Boutique—discusses her new cookbook, by New York Times Book Review comics “What a wonderful, strange, terrifying, featuring mainly dairy-free, plant-based, Jill Abramson and graphic novels columnist Hillary brilliant novel this is.” —Kamila Shamsie and refined sugar-free recipes that helped Chute. reconcile her relationship with food. Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight Thursday, Feb. 28 / 7:00pm for Facts Monday, Feb. 25 / 7:00pm Wednesday, Feb. 13 / 7:00pm Kristen Roupenian @ Harvard Book Store The Harvard Square Book Circle You Know You Want This: An Xiao Mina Renowned journalist Jill Abramson— discusses Toni Morrison’s Sula Cat Person and Other Stories Memes to Movements: former executive director of the New How the World’s Most Viral Media Is York Times—discusses the disruption of @ Harvard Book Store in conversation with MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN Changing Social Protest and Power the news media over the last decade, as Our in-store book club discusses Toni companies plow through the new digital Morrison’s celebrated novel , hailed as in conversation with Sula @ Harvard Book Store reality. This event is co-sponsored by “extravagantly beautiful” and “enormously, ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Mass Humanities. achingly alive” by . Kristen Roupenian—award-winning @ Harvard Book Store author of the viral New Yorker short story pm “Cat Person”—discusses her debut Technologist and media scholar An Wednesday, Feb. 20 / 7:00 Tuesday, Feb. 26 / 7:00pm collection. She’ll be joined by Xiao Mina discusses the mechanics Robert L. Tsai Globe columnist Meredith Goldstein. of memes and how they operate to Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis “These stories are sharp and perverse, reinforce, amplify, and shape today’s Practical Equality: The Shape of a Life: politics. She’ll be joined by Ethan Forging Justice in a Divided Nation dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly One Mathematician’s Search for the bananas.” —Carmen Maria Machado Zuckerman, the director of the Center for Universe’s Hidden Geometry Civic Media at MIT. in conversation with NOAH FELDMAN @ Harvard Book Store @ Harvard Book Store “An Xiao Mina . . . unpacks with great Tickets for events requiring them urgency, understanding, empathy, and Renowned mathematician and Harvard Constitutional law expert Robert L. Tsai are available online at harvard.com/ wisdom all the reasons why memes discusses how Americans have used professor Shing-Tung Yau and science matter.” —Jonny Sun innovative legal measures to overcome writer Steve Nadis discuss Yau’s events. Unless otherwise noted, injustice, offering a guide to pursuing new autobiography and his lifelong venues are in Cambridge. transnational effort to uncover the pm equality. He’ll be joined by Harvard Law Friday, Feb. 15 / 7:00 professor Noah Feldman. This event is geometric shape that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe. Katharine Smyth co-sponsored by Mass Humanities. Follow us on the web: • harvard.com/googlecalendar All the Lives We Ever Lived: pm • .com/harvardbooks Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf Thursday, Feb. 21 / 6:00pm Wednesday, Feb. 27 / 6:00 • instagram.com/harvardbookstore in conversation with DARCY FREY John Brockman David Reich • facebook.com/harvardbookstore @ Harvard Book Store Possible Minds: Who We Are and How We Got Here: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI Ancient DNA and the New Science 1256 Avenue Writer and editor Katharine Smyth of the Human Past Cambridge, MA 02138 discusses her debut book—a highly $6 tickets 617.661.1515 personal reading of To the Lighthouse Science Book Talks @ the Brattle Theatre | 40 Brattle St. and a lyrical memoir about the power www.harvard.com of literature to help us read our own @ Harvard Science Center Hall D John Brockman—founder of The Edge 1 Oxford St. lives. She’ll be joined by Darcy Frey, the Foundation, Inc. and editor of Know award-winning author of The Last Shot. This, This Idea Must Die, and other Harvard Medical School genetics This event is co-sponsored by Mass volumes—discusses his latest book, professor David Reich discusses how the Humanities. an essay collection from some of the genomic revolution is transforming our “Modern American memoir doesn’t get world’s leading scientific minds on where understanding of human history. This better—or more inventive—than this.” artificial intelligence might be taking us. event series is a collaboration with the —Darcy Frey Harvard University Division of Science and Cabot Science Library. Thursday, Feb. 21 / 7:00pm Monday, Feb. 18 / Karen Finley am pm 9:00 —11:00 Grabbing Pussy Presidents’ Day Sale @ Harvard Book Store @ Harvard Book Store Performance artist and NYU professor Get 20% off purchases all day in the Karen Finley discusses her new book— store and on harvard.com with the based on her performance piece Unicorn coupon code PREZDAY2019. Gratitude Mystery—which explores the influence of sex in American politics.