Books
Humane Fantasy in ‘Knock’
Israeli author Etgar Keret plays with fantasy in "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door," his latest collection of short stories.
Chabon’s Fiction Finds Homelands in Exile
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon spoke at Northeastern about blending his Jewish heritage with genre fiction.
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Monday evening Chad Harbach '97 discusses his recent novel, The Art of Fielding, at an event sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Undergraduate Committee. Harbach answered questions from student interviewers Madeleine Schwartz '12 and Mark Chiusano '12 about writing, baseball, and his experience at Harvard.
Leyner Grabs Life by the ‘Nutsack’ in New Novel
In “The Sugar Frosted Nutsack,” Mark Leyner crafts a hilarious combination of divine creation and mundane reality.
Mother-Daughter Maelstrom in Bechdel’s Latest Memoir
Depicting purely mental sequences in a predominantly visual format like that of a graphic novel is never an easy task, and Alison Bechdel sets a high bar for herself in her carefully-constructed, cerebral memoir, “Are You My Mother?”
HBS Prof. Publishes Book on Start-Ups
Startup companies are most likely to fail due to personal disagreements within their management teams, according to a new book by Noam T. Wasserman, an associate professor at Harvard Business School.
Evolution Revisited
Wilson frames “The Social Conquest of Earth” as a dialogue with painter Paul Gauguin, who penned on the canvas of his 1897 Tahitian masterpiece: “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”
VIDEO: Bros with Prose
In light of poetry month FM writers ask bros to eloquently read some poetry and prose. They recite the works ...
‘Flatscreen’ a Dark yet Humorous Portrait of Wasted Youth
In his poignant debut novel “Flatscreen,” author Adam Wilson introduces a pensive and sensitive side to a character that, based on first impressions alone, is easy to abhor.
