Category Archives: Lowell Humanities Series

Elif Batuman has written about Thai boxing, Russian ice palaces, and comedy traffic school for The New Yorker. She contributes to London Review of Books, n+1, and the Nation. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books … Continue reading →

Award-winning author Jane Brox will talk about her latest book, Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, at the Murray Function Room at 7:00 p.m. on Sept. 28. In Brilliant, Brox traces the fascinating history of human light from the stone … Continue reading →

Dexter Filkins, a New York Times foreign correspondent, was part of a team of reporters who won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He won a George Polk award for his coverage of the eight-day assault … Continue reading →