Ma and Me: A Memoir – Putsata Reang in conversation with Meghna Chakrabarti

Putsata Reang

Harvard Book Store’s virtual event series welcomes author and journalist PUTSATA REANG for a discussion of her new book Ma and Me: A Memoir. She will be joined in conversation by MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI, the celebrated host of WBUR’s On Point. About Ma and Me When Putsata Reang was eleven months old, her family fled war-torn Cambodia, spending twenty-three … Read more

Boston Book Festival: The Enduring Legacy of Slavery

The-Enduring-Legacy-of-Slavery

About this event Sometimes, the more you try to ignore or deny something, the more it asserts itself in your psyche. In the collective American psyche, that buried issue is slavery. Poet, scholar, and Atlantic Monthly staff writer Clint Smith, in his revelatory book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, investigates … Read more