Books
Harry and the Potters To Smackdown in 'Hogwart' Square
The wait is over—Harry and the Potters will be returning to 'Hogwart' Square. To celebrate the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2"—the final installment of the Harry Potter movie series based on the popular book series by J.K. Rowling—the Harvard Square Business Association is throwing "The Best Harry Potter Party EVER, Part 2: Smackdown in Hogwart Square."
Amazon Ranks Cambridge Most 'Well-Read' American City
Buying all those textbooks on Amazon.com seems to have paid off. Cambridge, Mass. ranked first in Amazon.com's list of the most well-read cities in the United States, the Fortune 500 company announced at the end of May.
Happening Now: Free Comic Book Day
Every year, the first Saturday in May is designated Free Comic Book Day. At least two locations in Harvard Square are participating in the event: Newbury Comics in The Garage and New England Comics on Eliot Street.
‘Leeches’ a Powerful Meditation on Limitations of Language
“Leeches” emerges from its entanglement with Serbian politics as a powerful postmodernist struggle with the impotence and emptiness of language.
Harvard Students, Alumni Publish Guide to Science Research
The main goal of the book, the team says, is to inspire a younger generation of students to discover a love of science and to become involved in science research.
Comics Artists Discuss Islam
This Friday, April 29, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Center for Middle Eastern Studies will host “Islam, the ...
Australian Laureate Murray Meditates on Nature and Dialect
In his 1999 poem “The Instruments,” Australian poet Les Murray wrote, “Poetry is read by lovers of poetry / and ...
Wallace’s Unfinished Novel Assesses Metaphysical Accounts
Damage is the natural condition of American culture and society in the fiction of David Foster Wallace. This damage takes ...
Komunyakaa Creates Bizarre, Beautiful World in ‘Couch’
Some poets perform an act of creation that supersedes the poem as a mere vessel for thought or emotion. Instead, ...
‘Double Shadow’ Presents a New Way to Pray
“No, we are not beyond beauty,” the poet Carl Phillips ’81 once said in an interview. “I was out working ...
