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Literature

A photo of "House of Koi" by Lillian Li

Books

COM Student Pens YA Novel about Identity, Cultural Conflict, and Malaysian Culture

July 31, 2020

A photo of homemade chocolate no-churn ice cream

Weekender

The Weekender: July 30 to August 2

July 30, 2020

A photo of a father and son playing with wooden blocks together

Weekender

The Weekender: June 18 to 21

June 18, 2020

19th century engraving of Charles Dickens sitting in his study.

Books

Charles Dickens: A Novelist for Our Times

June 9, 2020

Black and white print illustration of Dante bowing before the angel pilot from the Dore Gallery by Edmund Ollier - Cassel, Petter and Galpin (London-New York) 1870. A figure next to Dante comforts him as a boat with an angel approaches.

Books

What Happens Next? Four Literary Classics for a Post–COVID-19 World

June 5, 2020

Weekender

The Weekender: May 7 to 10

May 7, 2020

Paperback books stacked on top of each other..

Books

BU Libraries’ Most Popular Books (“Popular” Being Relative)

February 24, 2020

A photo of the cover of Sheila's Cordner's book "Who’s Hiding in This Book?"

Faculty

CGS Lecturer’s New Picture Book Introduces Young Readers to Literary Classics

January 29, 2020

A photo of a woman on a bed reading a book surrounded by other open books.

Voices & Opinion

POV: What Makes for a Satisfying Ending?

January 16, 2020

A portrait of Viet Thanh Nguyen who will be delivering the 2019 Ha Jin Lecture

Arts & Culture

Pulitzer-Winning Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen to Give Ha Jin Lecture Tonight

November 19, 2019

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye smiles for a photo while standing on a bridge

Arts & Culture

“Wandering Poet” Naomi Shihab Nye Headlines Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading

November 5, 2019

a crowd watches the Last year Commonwealth Shakespeare Company perform onstage

Theatre

To Do Today: Shakespeare Live on the Common

July 17, 2019

A still of Bela Lugosi playing Dracula in the 1931 film

Literature

This Class Bites

May 7, 2019

Portrait of Mark Halliday

Poetry

Poet Mark Halliday Headlines Lowell Poetry Reading Thursday

April 10, 2019

3 portraits who are experts on attraction

Faculty

Why We’re Attracted to the People We’re Attracted To

February 7, 2019

Raakhee Mirchandani holds her book Super Satya Saves the Day

Alumni

A Fictional Superhero Inspired by a Real-Life Four-Year-Old

January 15, 2019

Chelsea Bray poses for a portrait with cotton milling machines in the historical Boott Cotton Mill in Lowell, MA said to be an inspiration for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Literature

A Christmas Carol: Made in Massachusetts?

December 18, 2018

Video still from the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tv special showing Santa Claus talking to Rudolph with his blinking red nose.

Holiday

POV: Rudolph the Sad, Bullied, Verbally Abused Red-Nosed Reindeer

December 7, 2018

Breaking Bad character Walter White sits in a recliner with his family wife Skylar and son Walt Jr. in the background.

Television

Breaking Bad Director Gives CAS Class the Inside Dope

November 30, 2018

CAS Lecturer + author Sigrid Nunez

Arts & Culture

Sigrid Nunez Up For Top Literature Honor

November 14, 2018

Sigrid Nunez Up For Top Literature Honor