Tag Archives: Japan

Amy Stanley: Stranger in the Shogun’s City

Posted on September 3, 2024 by Bookworm

Amy Stanley, the Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History at Northwestern University, will discuss her award-winning book Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World at Boston College on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. in … Continue reading →

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Alumna’s debut novel is a bestseller

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Bookworm

Fifty Words for Rain (Dutton, 2020), a New York Times bestseller and a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, is the debut novel of 2015 Boston College alumna Asha Lemmie. Fifty Words for Rain tells the story of Nori, the daughter … Continue reading →

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Past Obsessions

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Bookworm

In her forthcoming book Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory, historian Carol Gluck considers examples from Europe, Asia, and North America that help us to understand both how public memory works and the challenge that the present preoccupation … Continue reading →

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