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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

New York Review of Books Syllabus (Autumn 2014)

On this date on Round and Square's History 
27 August 2013—China's Lunar Calendar 2013 08-27
27 August 2013—Syllabic Cycles: Chinese History and Culture (2013)-b
27 August 2012—The New Yorker and the World: Course Description (f)
27 August 2011—Annals of Ostracism: The Crime of Cephu
[a[ Gates to learning RF

New York Review of Books (NYRB) Syllabus
All Classes
Autumn 2014
Robert André LaFleur                                                             Office Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111                                                                 Tuesday           12:00-1:30
363-2005                                                                                   Thursday         12:00-1:30
lafleur@beloit.edu                                                                    …or by appointment

Please note that the dates next to each week are for the Tuesday and Thursday class meetings for ANTH 206 and HIST 210/ANTH 275. NYRB readings will be "due" on Tuesdays in all classes (including the "Reflexivity" seminar) unless I tell you otherwise through e-mail or in class.

This semester, we will read the complete issue of 
The New York Review of Books for July 10, 2014
Week One 
(26-28 August)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Read all front matter (cover, inside-cover advertisement, table of contents, contributors)
4-6  Hilton Als   Ghosts in Sunlight

Week Two 
(2-4 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
6-10 Paul Krugman  Does He Pass the Test?   
          Stress Test by Timothy Geitner
12-14 Zadie Smith      On J.G. Ballard's 'Crash'

Week Three 
(9-11 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
72-75  Malise Ruthven  What Happened to the Arab Spring?
              The Second Arab Awakening and the Battle for Pluralism by Marwan Muasher
              The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising
76-80  Tim Judah The Battle for Ukraine
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80-81  What Causes Alzheimer's?: An Exchange
81-82  Letters
82-83  The Classifieds

Week Four 
(16-18 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
16-20  Sue Halpern    Partial Disclosure 
              No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
              The Snowden Files by Luke Harding
              United States of Secrets by Michael Kirk
              The NSA Report by the President's Review Group on Intelligence...
22-26  Nathaniel Rich The Heart of New Orleans
              Bourbon Street: A History by Richard Campanella
              Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink

Week Five (23-25 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
26        A Poem by Wislawa Szymborska
28-32   Steve Coll Citizen Bezos
               The Everything Store by Brad Stone
34-36  Adam Kirsch  The Redemption of Walter Benjamin
              Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings

Week Six 
(September 30-2 October)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
37-38  James Surowiecki   High on Speed
              Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
39-42   Michael Scammell  The CIA's 'Zhivago'
               The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, The CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by 
                     Peter Finn and Petra Couvée
               Inside the Zhivago Storm: The Editorial Adventures of Pasternak's Masterpiece by Paolo Mancosu

Week Seven
(7-9 October)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
43-45  Gordon S. Wood   The Bleeding Founders
              Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health by 
                   Jeanne E. Abrams
46-48  Bill McKibben   Climate: Will We Lose the Endgame?
              Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker
              What We Know: The Reality, Risks and Response to Climate Change a report by the Climate 
                   Science Panel of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
              Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment a report 
                   by the US Global Change Research Program
48       Poem: Dog and Master  Henri Cole

Week Ten 
(28-30 October)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
50-52  Samuel Freeman  The Case Against Moralism
              Essays and Reviews, 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams
53-55  Michael Ignatieff  Are the Authoritarians Winning?
              Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order 
                    by Richard N. Haass
              Restraint: A New Foundation for US Grand Strategy by Barry R. Posen
              The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State by John Micklethwait and 
                   Adrian Wooldridge
              Reforming Taxation to Promote Growth and Equity a white paper by Joseph Stiglitz

Week Eleven 
(4-6 November)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
55-57  Jonathan Mirsky  Tibet Resists
              Voices From Tibet: Selected Essays and Reportage by Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong
              Tibet: An Unfinished Story by Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper
              A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955-1957 by Melvyn C. 
                  Goldstein
58-60  David A. Bell   A Very Different French Revolution
              Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man 
                   to Robespierre by Jonathan Israel

Week Twelve 
(11-13 November)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
61-62  Gideon Lewis Kraus  Dragooned into Solidarity
              Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole
63-65  Gregory Hays  Roman Jokers
              Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard

Week Thirteen
(18-20 November)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
66-68  Colm Tóibín  Lust and Loss in Madrid
              The Infatuations by Javier Marías
              In the Night of Time by Antonio Muñoz Molina
69-70  James M. McPherson  Our Monstrous War
              Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War by Michael C.C. Adams

Week Fifteen  
(2-4 December)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Selections (handouts)
[b] Shepherding the argument RF

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