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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
appointmentPlease 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 readingRead 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 reading6-10 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 reading72-75 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 reading16-20 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 reading26 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 reading37-38 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 reading43-45 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 reading50-52 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 readingVoices 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 reading61-62 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 reading66-68 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 readingSelections (handouts)
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