Beretsky’s condition in ‘Seizing Control’: Prepared to take on indifference of doctors
A lifelong battle with epilepsy is related in vivid and often stomach-turning detail, and the author X-rays the often-alienating world of modern medicine.
Inspired by Harvard Square Holiday Poetry Stroll, Inman Square now has its own ‘Literature Stroll’
A resident’s Literature Stroll of excerpted great works begins at Inman and Cambridge streets and runs eastward down Cambridge Street this month.
Technology is key to understanding humanity, starting with the bad stuff, sci-fi writers tell us
An MIT Museum panel of science fiction writers delved into a process of play with tech – including the joy of tricking it – on the way to being seers of the future.
‘The Berry Pickers’ is a late-blooming debut telling an indigenous story of family and hope
With her her debut novel “The Berry Pickers,” Amanda Peters perhaps perfectly signifies the writers’ adage “It’s never too late to make your big break.”
To predict the future from today’s technology, turn to science fiction writers at Saturday panel
The phone that tracks you, the home smart speaker that eavesdrops on you, the artificial intelligence that can fake a photo – where does this all end?
For four famed women authors in library panel, Cambridge is the place and this is their moment
Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Hannah Adams, Margaret Fuller and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins connected across the centuries Nov. 6 with Virginia Pye, Laura Zigman, Gish Jen and Claire Messud at “Cambridge Woman Authors: Past and Present,” an event led by Pye.
Disinformation and misinformation: Gloom from experts with books by university presses
Lee McIntyre, author of “On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy.” (Photo: author’s website, with edges expanded in Photoshop) Disinformation is everywhere: in politics, online, between friends – and between senators. Lee McInty …
For University Press Week, a trio of publications proposes fixes for education, science and the law
A list of best publications by university presses includes works out of Harvard, MIT and Brandeis on saving higher ed, women in science and “guardianship” abuse.
‘Literary Undoing’ author has literary happening: Monday panel on Cambridge with fellow writers
Cambridge authors Gish Jen, Claire Messud and Laura Zigman will join fellow Cantabrigian Virginia Pye, who has just published her Cambridge-set “The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann,” to discuss their writing and how the city they live in inspires it.
Sol Gittleman’s ‘Accidental Triumph’ teaches us how America stumbled into intellectual greatness
America is a nation of students that – in a culture linked inextricably with anti-intellectualism – doesn’t want to admit it, Tuft’s Sol Gittleman says in a new history.
