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Literature

Boston University BU, Marsh Chapel, Reverand Robert Hill, The Courageous Gospel, WIPF & Stock, lectures sermons Johns gospel

Staff

Beauty and Anti-Semitism: The Gospel of John

October 15, 2013

Boston University BU, poetry literature, UROP, research,

Poetry

Poetry as the Heard Word

October 10, 2013

Boston University BU alumni, Pulitzer Winner Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

Ethnic

Pulitzer-winning BU Alum Up for Man Booker Prize, National Book Award

October 7, 2013

Boston University BU, Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet John Ashbery, Former Robert Pinsky Global Fellow Sophie Grimes

Poetry

John Ashbery Headlines Lowell Poetry Reading

October 3, 2013

Boston University BU, US poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters, Cambridge Public Library, Louisa Solano Poetry Series

Poetry

Former Poet Laureate Pinsky Designs Anthology for Aspiring Poets

October 1, 2013

Boston University BU, College of Communication COM, professor Dick Lehr, Whitey Bulger

Arts & Culture

“Whitey”: The Story of a Monster

February 21, 2013

Boston University BU, Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes, Ani Gjika,

University News

Poems That Invoke Cultural Figures, from Harriet Tubman to Dr. Seuss

February 20, 2013

The Feminine Mystique book by author Betty Friedan, 50th anniversary of Feminine Mystique

Literature

Friedan’s Feminine Mystique Turns 50

February 12, 2013

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Faculty

Machiavelli’s The Prince: Still Relevant after All These Years

February 6, 2013

Carrie Preston, associate professor of English, Boston University, Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance book, Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and the Pedagogies of Transnational Performance book

Literature

Linking the Ivory Tower with the Street

January 29, 2013

Boston University BU, nobel laureate Elie Wiesel interview, new novel memoir, Open Heart, Hostage

Literature

Nobel Laureate Wiesel on His New Novel, Memoir

December 10, 2012

The Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading, Pulitzer-winning poet C. K. Williams, Eleanor Goodman, poetry reading, The Castle

Literature

Lowell Poetry Series Presents “Fellini of the Written Word”

December 6, 2012

Tom Lyons, New England Mobile Book Fair

Business & Law

Crazy? The Man Bought a Bookstore

November 8, 2012

Three Encounters with Elie Wiesel The Fascination with Jewish Tales annual lecture series, Boston University Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor, author

Religion

Annual Elie Wiesel Lecture Series Begins Tonight

October 15, 2012

Hanna Rosin author of The End of Men And the Rise of Women book, dominant human gender

Wellness

The End of Men: True or False?

October 12, 2012

Running Ransom Road Confronting the Past One Marathon at a Time book by author Caleb Daniloff, running, jogging, marathons, alcoholism

University News

Confronting the Past, One Marathon at a Time

October 9, 2012

Boston University BU psychology professor Donna Pincus, Growing Up Brave: Expert Strategies for Helping Your Child Overcome Fear, Stress, and Anxiety, childhood anxiety stress and stress

Public Health

When the World Is Scarier Than It Should Be

October 3, 2012

Sylvia Nasar's new book details how economists developed anti-poverty strategies.

Arts & Culture

Sylvia Nasar’s Grand Pursuit

September 25, 2012

The Kings’ Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin by Elizabeth Goldsmith, College of Arts & Sciences CAS professor

Literature

17th-Century Sisters the Kardashians Might Admire

August 27, 2012

Sin the early history of an idea by Paula Fredriksen, Christian views on original sin

Literature

Evolving Ideas of Sin

August 6, 2012

Evolving Ideas of Sin