With the feminist-sounding title and the bright yellow cover that screams “beach read,” it is easy to write off The Summer Without Men at first glance as the literary version [...]

Visitors got an alternative education last weekend at the 2011 Boston Anarchist Bookfair, sponsored by the Progressive Librarians Guild at Simmons College. The bookfair, held from November 11 to 13, [...]

From the day Amaryllis was born, her mother Seena knew that she was vastly different from her three other daughters. Just by looking at Amaryllis, nicknamed Yllis, anyone can tell [...]

Fair Play, Thomas Teal’s translation of Tove Jansson’s Swedish novel Rent Spel, is distinct from the average American novel.  It is seemingly about nothing in particular, as it chronicles the day-to-day lives [...]

Going to the grocery store can be a daunting task.  There are a multitude of aisles filled with countless types of food, making it easy to get distracted and overwhelmed.  [...]

Julia and Valentina are frighteningly similar. As mirror-image twins, they are perfectly symmetrical to one another. Valentina’s heart is even located on the opposite side of her chest, causing her [...]

When I picked up Swamplandia! for the first time, I was confused. Depicted on the cover in cartoon-style artistry is a little girl, braids blowing in the breeze, sitting atop a [...]

Books, quite frankly, are awesome. They are doorways to other worlds; they are reservoirs of knowledge. They are almost always better than the movie. The Boston Book Festival (BBF) was [...]

To kill another human being is an action that most people cannot fathom.  The desire to wipe out an entire group of people, therefore, is on the verge of unimaginable.  [...]

Many have suffered from serious withdrawal since July 15. It was an emotional day; for some, it felt like childhood’s end as the final installment of the Harry Potter film series [...]

The economy is in shambles, the government is divided on every important issue and there is yet another disappointment to add to the list: the country has fallen behind. “In [...]

B.U. students and faculty members celebrated Harlem Renaissance leader Alain Locke’s birthday on Tuesday evening. Visiting lecturer Jeffrey Stewart spoke to the crowd about Locke’s famous ideas on “Negro Art,” [...]