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New York Review of Books (NYRB) Syllabus
All Classes
Autumn 2014
Robert André LaFleur Office
Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111 Monday
2:30-4:00
363-2005 Wednesday
2:30-4:00
lafleur@beloit.edu …or by
appointment
This semester, we will read the complete issue of
The New York Review of Books for January 8, 2015
Week One
(19-23 January)
Buy your copy of the New York Review of BooksWeek Two
(26-30 January)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.Read the "front matter" and the "back matter" of the NYRB. This includes the cover, the entire table of contents, and the classified advertisements. Then browse through the entire periodical. In other words, "get to know" the NYRB this week.
Week Three
(2-6 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.4 Joseph Brodsky and Charles Simic, "On Mark Strand (1934-2014)"
6-10 Daniel Pinckney, "In Ferguson"
Week Four
(9-13 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.12-16 Anthony Grafton, "A Great Master at the Met"
Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry: An Exhibition...
18-19 Dan Chiasson, "Where's Brando?"
Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work by Susan L. Mirzuchi
Week Five
(16-20 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.(16-20 February)
20-22 Marcia Angell, "A Better Way Out"
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
23-24 "Why the Innocent Please Guilty": An Exhcange
Week Six
(23-27 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.24-26 Diane Johnson, "Who Is Not Guilty of This Vice?"
Jealousy by Peter Toohey
Thank You for This Moment: A Story of Love, Power, and Betrayal by Valérie Trierweiler
26-28 David Cole, "Must Counterterrorism Cancel Democracy?"
Week Seven
(2-6 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.29-31 Geoffrey O'Brien, "Two Eerie Experiences in New York"
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich...
Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II, a play by Christopher Marlowe...
31-33 Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "How the Murdoch Gang Got Away"
Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch, by Nick Davies
Week Ten
(23-27 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.34-35 Gideon Lewis-Kraus, "A Very Quiet Triumph"
Nora Webster, by Colm Tóbín
36-39 Martin Filler, "Frank Gehry in Paris"
Week Eleven
(30 March-3 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.40 "What's the Matter with Economics?": An Exchange
41-43 Stephen Greenblatt, "The Naughty Pleasures of Boccaccio"
The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated from the Italian...by Wayne A. Rehorn
44-46 Christopher R. Browning, "How Envy of Jews Lay Behind It"
Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred...by Götz Aly...
Week Twelve
(6-10 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.47-48 Norman Rush, "Very Evil Guys in Africa"
The Laughing Monsters, by Denis Johnson
49-51 David Shulman, "At the Heart of Hinduism"
Ardor, by Roberto Calasso
Week Thirteen
(13-17 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.52-54 Robin Lane Fox, "The Floral Kingdom in the Bronx"
Flora Illustrata: A Celebration of Botanical Masterworks, an exhibition...
Flora Illustrata: Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the...
56-60 Alma Guillermoprieto, "Mexico: The Murder of the Young"
61-62 Letters
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