Explore how Americans have remembered and forgotten Washington’s involvement with slavery over the past 250 years. Three historians who work at the intersection of scholarship and public history will shed new light on our founding contradictions.

Porter Square Books is thrilled to present an evening with Ibram X. Kendi at First Parish in Cambridge for the release of his latest book, Chain of Ideas. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) will join Dr. Kendi in conversation.

From beloved picture book creator Katie Yamasaki: an idyllic river trip and a celebration of connections—to family, community, and the natural world.

The 120th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize celebrates the voice felt twice—once in the body, once in the world.

In Thrall, a young woman looking for a transformative college experience is bitten by a vampire and must team up with his other living victims to hunt him down.

From the best–selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven surviving crewmen face not only the miseries of shipwreck in unfamiliar territory but also...

Artist, filmmaker, and national bestselling author Tourmaline will discuss her new book, Marsha, published in May 2025. The book is the definitive biography of revolutionary trans activist Marsha P. Johnson and was named a National Bestseller and selected by The New York Times for its Nonfiction Spring...

The author comes to Porter Square Books to discuss her latest work with Margot Livesey. ABOUT THE SHAPE OF DREAMS A trio of women bond in friendship as a neighborhood tries to seek justice from a system that has forgotten them.

Science writer Lorraine Boissoneault has been in pain for most of her adult life. Unable to control or make sense of her chronic illness diagnoses, she began describing the ebb and flow of her symptoms as “body weather.” At first an imaginative approach to coping with flare-ups,...