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Kim McLarin: Womanish

Wed, Feb 6, 2019

Author Kim McLarin explores identity in the modern day in her latest work _Womanish_. Born in 1964 and growing up as the first generation post the Civil Rights Movement, McLarin's collection of essays explores topics ranging from Divorce to the Obamas as she defines in rolls that make her American. McLarin's wit and power over her words brings her essays to life as she shares with the reader her life in the "Brown vs. Board" generation of Generation X. In thirteen essays, McLarin forms of a crossroad of her many identities in society as a black middle-aged woman. Image: [book cover](http://www.harvard.com/event/kim_mclarin/ "Book Cover")

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Lawrence Lessig: America, Compromised

Fri, Feb 1, 2019

In _America, Compromised_ Lawrence Lessig captures a snapshot of contemporary America and forms an argument on how the institutions of the American government have come to be the way they are. Throughout the book, Lessig shows that the modern problems plaguing corrupt political institutions cannot simply be blamed upon the "bad people" of society. Rather, Lessig argues that it is compromise that has brought down the American system. Image: [book cover](http://www.harvard.com/event/lawrence_lessig2/ "Book Cover")

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D. M. Aderibigbe: How the End First Showed

Mon, Dec 10, 2018

Crafting memories into compact verse, D. M. Aderibigbe traces the history of domestic and emotional abuse against women in his family. As a son, grandson, nephew, and brother, he rejects the tradition in his native Nigeria, where men are praised in song, refusing to offer tribute to men who dishonor their wives. Image: Book Cover

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The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution

Tue, Nov 27, 2018

David Kaplan is the former legal affairs editor at Newsweek. His book _The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution_ is based on exclusive interviews with the justices and dozens of their law clerks. Kaplan provides fresh details about life behind the scenes at the Court, from Clarence Thomas’s simmering rage, to Antonin Scalia’s death, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s celebrity. Kaplan shows the justices’ aggrandizement of power over the decades—from _Roe v. Wade_ to _Bush v. Gore_ to _Citizens United_, to rulings during the 2017-18 term. Conservative and liberal justices alike are shown to be guilty of overreach. Image: Book Cover

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Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border

Fri, Nov 9, 2018

Emergency responders on the US-Mexico border operate at the edges of two states. They rush patients to hospitals across country lines, tend to the broken bones of migrants who jump over the wall, and put out fires that know no national boundaries. Paramedics and firefighters on both sides of the border are tasked with saving lives and preventing disasters in the harsh terrain at the center of divisive national debates. Ieva Jusionyte’s firsthand experience as an emergency responder provides the background for her examination of the politics of injury and rescue in the militarized region surrounding the US-Mexico border. Operating in this area, firefighters and paramedics are torn between their mandate as frontline state actors and their responsibility as professional rescuers, between the limits of law and pull of ethics. From this vantage they witness what unfolds when territorial sovereignty, tactical infrastructure, and the natural environment collide. Image: Book Cover

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Jabari Asim: We Can't Breathe

Fri, Oct 19, 2018

In eight wide-ranging essays, collected in _We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival_, Jabari Asim explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life; the importance of black fathers and community; the significance of black writers and stories; and the beauty and pain of the black body. What emerges is a rich portrait of a community and culture that has resisted, survived, and flourished despite centuries of racism, violence, and trauma. These thought-provoking essays present a different side of American history, one that doesn’t depend on a narrative steeped in oppression but rather reveals black voices telling their own stories. Asim is an author, poet and playwright. For this discussion he is joined in conversation by _Boston Globe_ columnist Adrian Walker. Image: Book Cover

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How Fascism Works

Fri, Oct 12, 2018

By uncovering disturbing patterns that are as prevalent today as ever, philosopher Jacob Stanley reveals in _How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them_ that the stuff of politics—charged by rhetoric and myth—can quickly become policy and reality. Only by recognizing fascists politics, he argues, may we resist its most harmful effects and return to democratic ideals. For this conversation Stanley is joined by Harvard associate professor of History Elizabeth Hinton.

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Sarah Smarsh: Heartland

Mon, Oct 1, 2018

Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side. Through her experiences growing up as the daughter of a dissatisfied young mother and raised predominantly by her grandmother on a farm thirty miles west of Wichita, we are given a unique and essential look into the lives of poor and working-class Americans living in the heartland. Smarsh's personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty can have on individuals, families, and communities, and she explores this idea as lived experience, metaphor, and level of consciousness.

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Rage Becomes Her

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why. Following in the footsteps of classic feminist manifestos like The Feminine Mystique and Our Bodies, Ourselves, Rage Becomes Her is an eye-opening book for the twenty-first-century woman: an engaging, accessible credo offering us the tools to re-understand our anger and harness its power to create lasting positive change. Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning writer and activist SORAYA CHEMALY for a discussion on her new book Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger. She is joined in conversation by JACLYN FRIEDMAN, author of Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All. Image: Book Cover

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We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change

Wed, Aug 15, 2018

We live in a time of alarming and bewildering change: the breakup of the post-1945 global order, numerous species facing extinction, and perhaps the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. In his book 'We’re Doomed. Now What?' he addresses this time of crisis through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss, from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation.

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