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Steven Pinker Explains What Happens When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows

On Sept. 29, Harvard Professor Steven Pinker sat down at the First Parish Church to discuss his most recent book on common knowledge.

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‘The Museum of Unnatural Histories’ Review: A Disappointing Daze of Dissociative Tales

“The Museum of Unnatural Histories” takes readers on a confusing, 104-page journey through a disjointed collection of times and spaces.

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‘The Magician of Tiger Castle’ Review: Louis Sachar’s Absurdly Intuitive Fairytale for Adults

“The Magician of Tiger Castle” is a fairytale that asks the question: When do I change for the better, even if it goes against who I’ve always been?

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Bestselling Author Mary Roach Encourages Humor and Transparency In Biotech

Mary Roach encouraged the use of humor to break down barriers in medical discourse while promoting her new book “Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy” at a Harvard Science Book Talk Wednesday evening.

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At Lovestruck Books’ ‘Alchemised’ Release Party, Readers Gather to Celebrate the Fanfiction-Turned-Novel

Atmospheric and enchanting, the “Alchemised” release party allowed a diverse audience to come together and celebrate.

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Read with the Performative Man: A Defense of Public Reading

Performative reading embodies the double-edged nature of college life: at once private and public, intimate and staged, raw and strategic.

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At Harvard Talk, World Wide Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Says Today’s Internet Exploits Users for Data

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” in a talk in Harvard Square on Wednesday evening about his recently released memoir.

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Primatologist Christine Webb Criticizes ‘Human Exceptionalism’ in Science at Harvard Talk

Primatologist Christine Webb argued at a Harvard talk on Tuesday that modern science is often skewed by “human exceptionalism."

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Author Profile: Sarah Aziza on Crisis Reporting and the Music of the Book

As the daughter of a Palestinian refugee father, books and oral storytelling are an important way for Sarah Aziza to hold onto her past.

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‘Ruth’ Review: A Ruthless Critique of Kate Riley’s Christian Communist Novel

In "Ruth," the extensive worldbuilding is to the detriment of Riley’s main character, whose development Riley neglects as a result.

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‘Shakespeare Was a Bit of a Fanboy’: The Confluence of History and Literature in Marie Rutkoski’s Fiction

Marie Rutkoski has written multiple New York Times bestselling novels that differ vastly in genre, geographic location, and time period.

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‘Conscious of Language and Power’: Katie Kitamura on the Physical Life of Words

One book at a time, Katie Kitamura is devising a theory on how to articulate what is undefinable.

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‘Good and Evil and Other Stories’ Review: A Sextet of Living and Losing

What the stories leave unsaid proves to be the most disturbing of all, inflicting an unnerving freedom on readers’ minds and emotions.

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Harvard Authors Profile: Youmna M. Chamieh ’21-’22 on How to Look at the World Sideways

Comfortability with ambiguity bleeds into Chamieh’s writing; her empathy as she searches for reconciliation between diverging narratives is palpable.

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‘Good Girl’ Review: Emotional Excess and Existentialism

“Good Girl” is an addictive immersion into the gaudy world of Berlin nightlife, weaving together a teenager’s hazy memories with keen observations on art.

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