One year ago on Round and Square (30 August 2012)—The New Yorker and the World: Course Description (i)
Two years ago on Round and Square (30 August 2011)—Styling Culture: Introduction
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All Classes
Autumn 2013
Robert André LaFleur Office
Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111 Tuesday
2:30-4:00*
363-2005 Thursday
12:00-1:30
lafleur@beloit.edu …or by
appointment
*Office hours will revert to the regular 12:00-1:30 time after autumn break.
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 "Mountains" seminar) unless I tell you otherwise through e-mail or in class.
Week Two (3-5 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.
3 Table of Contents (Read the whole page)
4-6 Frederick Seidel The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
6-10 Steve Coll The Dispensable Nation...by Vali Nasr
Week Three (10-12 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.
10-12 Elaine Blair Sontag: Reborn a play..., directed by Marianne Weems
13-14 Joshua Hammer A New Turn in Tunisia?
Week Four (17-19 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.
16-20 Terry Castle Mad Girl's Love Song...by Andrew Wilson
American Isis...by Carl Rollyson
20-21 Martin Wolf How Austerity Has Failed
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Week Five (24-26 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.
22-23 Dan Chiasson New and Selected Poems...by Charles Simic
24-26 Alfred Brendel A Pianist's A-V
Week Six (1-3 October)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.
27-28 Michael Chabon Let It Rock
29-31 Geoffrey O'Brien The Searchers...by Glenn Frankel
Week Seven (8-10 October)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.
32-34 Sanford Schwartz Bad Boy...by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone
35-37 Peter Brown The Throne of Adulis...by G.W. Bowersock
Week Ten (29-31 October)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.
37-38 Walter Kaiser Queen Bee of Tuscany...by Ben Downing
39-40 Luc Sante Something in the Air a film by Olivier Assayas
Un adolescence dans l'après...a film by Olivier Assayas
40 George Orwell and
Dwight McDonald Animal Farm: What Orwell Really Meant
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Week Eleven (5-7 November)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.
42-45 T.H. Breen Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege...by Nathaniel Philbrick
46-48 Hermione Lee The Selected Letters of Willa Cather edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout
Week Twelve (12-14 November)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.
49-50 Colin McGinn The Good, the True,...by Jean-Pierre Changeux...
51-53 David Cole On Constitutional Disobedience by Louis Michael Seidman
53 Paula Bohince Poem
Week Thirteen (19-21 November)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.
54-55 David Bromwich Ambition, a History...by William Casey King
56-60 Adam Thirlwell Santiango by László Krasznahorkai...
Week Fifteen (3-5 December)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading.
62-64 Letters from Dexter Filkins, David Bromwich, John Stauffer, Christopher
Benfey, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, Roger
Cohen, Edwin Yoder Jr., Gordon S. Wood, John Nathan,
and Pico Iyer
66 From the Archives Hannah Arendt on Violence
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