Nonfiction

Touching Home in China: In Search of Missing Girlhoods

Meet New York City Marathon champion and Olympic medalist Shalane Flanagan and get your copy of her cookbook Run Fast. Cook Fast. Eat Slow signed the morning before the Boston Marathon!

This event is a meet & greet, book signing only. Shalane will be signing and personalizing books!

“…a Jewel of a collection of US revolutionaries’ memoirs that captures and recreates the period like no other…” --Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

From Cuba to Harvard Yard and San Francisco State. Defying the travel ban, fighting the war and racism, student strikes, labor and community alliances.

COME CELEBRATE, question, and enjoy readings from this publication of memoirs with participants in struggles from the sixties and seventies, as part of the vital discussion about building strong movements today.

Kim McLarin reads from her essay collection Womanish, in conversation with 2018 Boston Artist-in-Residence Nakia Hill.

In her long-awaited debut, a beloved master teacher shows us how to move from the “constant squeeze” of suffering to a direct experience of enoughness.

Grace Talusan disccuses her new book The Body Papers in conversation with local author Celeste Ng.

The author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it means to be human--and the ways we are (and aren’t) unique among animals.

Randy Shaw, author of Generation Priced Out, appears in conversation with A Better Cambridge founder Jesse Kanson-Benanav.

Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes life history interviews with a diverse set of Millennials to probe how they understand gender and how they might change it.