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New York Review of Books (NYRB) Syllabus
All Classes
Spring 2016
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
appointmentAfter Week One (due on Thursday), please note that NYRB readings will be "due" on Tuesdays in all classes 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 January 14, 2016
Week One
(21 January)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's readingRead all front matter (cover, inside-cover advertisement, table of contents, contributors)
4 David Cole, The Trouble at Yale
8 T.S. Eliot, Two Uncollected Poems
Week Two
(26 January)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading10 Gordon Wood, Federalists on Broadway
Hamilton: An American Musical book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel That Stunned the Nation by John
Sedgwick
Week Three
(2 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading 64 John Nathan, Who Can Put Across Genji?
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Dennis Washburn
Week Four
(9 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading26 Steve Coll, An Eloquent Voice From Guantánamo
Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, edited by Larry Siems
Week Five
(16 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading(16 February)
60 John Edwards, How the Spaniards Got There First
World Without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire by Hugh Thomas
Week Six
(23 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading51 Robert Gottlieb, Dancing in the Dark
Flesh and Bone a television series created by Moira Walley-Becket
Week Seven
(1 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading43 R.J.W. Evans, A New Vision of Germany
Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor
Week Ten
(22 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading37 Cass R. Sunstein, Parking the Big Money
The Hidden Wealth of Nation: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman, translated
from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan, with a foreword by Thomas Piketty
The Price We Pay a film directed by Harold Crooks
Week Eleven
(29 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading48 Masha Gessen, Visible and Vicious in Russia
Human Rights in Russia: Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin by Mary McAuley
Week Twelve
(5 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading55 Avishai Margalit, 'A Knack for Handling Power'
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel by Anita Shapira
Week Thirteen
(12 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading30 Jed Perl, In the Sculptor's Studio
Rodin: The Laboratory of Creation an exhibition at the Musee Rodin, Paris
Catalog of the exhibition by Catherine Chivillot, Helene Marraud, and Helene Pinet,
translated from the French by John Adamson
Rodin by Raphael Masson and Veronique Mattiussi, translated from the French by
Deke Dusinberre
Picasso Sculpture an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Catalog of the exhibition by Ann Temkin and Anne Umland
Week Fourteen
(19 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading58 Adam Kisrch, The World Turned Upside Down
The Man in the High Castle a television series created by Frank Spotnitz
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