READING | Granta

Granta, a well-respected literary magazine, is proud to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Editor Ian Jack will read works from this milestone issue, along with Pankaj Mishra and Gary Shteyngart. Free. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave. (EGC)

DANCE | Israeli Folk Dance Lessons

Get your folk on with Israeli Folk Dancing lessons and practice at Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel. Tickets $2, 8 p.m. Hillel, 45 Mt. Auburn Street. (617) 484-3267. (KMM)

FILM | Tootsie

Take a break from studying for your Science B-29 midterm with a trip to the Harvard Film Archive to see Dustin Hoffman’s gender-bending “Tootsie.” The 1982 film classic features Hoffman as a scheming out-of-work actor who becomes a soap star—as a woman. $8 Regular $6 Students, Faculty and Staff, Senior Citizens 7 p.m. Carpenter Center. (617) 495-4700. (KMM)

Tuesday, Oct. 26

READING | Dubravka Ugresic

Ukrainian author Dubravka Ugresic will read from and discuss her new essay compendium, Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia. Her commentary on the increasingly commercial emphasis of literature as opposed to a culture of reading and writing built on the power of words and ideas is well worth the time. Free. Harvard Information Center, in the Holyoke Center. 6:00 PM. (MAB)

FILM | Everything’s Gonna Be Great

Have a passionate and unquenchable desire to see foreign film? Come to this Turkish comedy, a big hit in its native land and the story of two brothers, a warehouse full of medicine, and a robbery that turns disastrous. The director, Omer Vargi, has just produced a second feature, Under Construction. Turkish, in English subtitles. Free. Fong Auditorium, 110 Boylston Hall. 5:30 p.m. (MAB)

Thursday, Oct. 28

MUSIC | The World Goes Round