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27 August 2014—China's Lunar Calendar 2014 08-2727 August 2014—New York Review of Books Syllabus: Autumn 2014
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
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New York Review of Books (NYRB) Syllabus
All Classes
Autumn 2015
Robert André LaFleur Office
Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111 Tuesday
2:00-3:30
363-2005 Thursday
2:00-3:30
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 August 13, 2015
Week One
(25-27 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 James Salter They Began a New Era
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Week Two
(1 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading8-10 Sue Halpern The Man For Mars
Elon Musk: Tesla, Space X, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
12-16 Ingrid Rowland The Grandest Art of the Ancients
Multiple texts and exhibitions reviewed
Week Three
(8 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading 18-22 David Cole The New America: Little Privacy, Big Terror
Multiple texts reviewed
24-27 Anka Muhlstein The Victory of Queen Margot
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite of Valois...by Nancy Goldstone
Week Four
(15 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading27-29 Anonymous The Mystery of ISIS
Multiple texts reviewed
30-31 Alice Gregory The Riders of the Waves
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
Week Five
(22 September)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading(22 September)
32-34 Roderick MacFarquhar China: The Superpower of Mr. Xi
The Governance of China by Xi Jinping and...Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping by Willy Wo-Lap Lam
35-36 James Fenton Dennis Hastert: Victim
Week Six
(September 29)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading36-38 Geoffrey O'Brien Staggering Local Wonderlands
The Musical Brain and Other Stories by Cesár Aira
40-49 Jim Dwyer Charming, Ruthless Andrew Cuomo
The Contender...by Michael Shnayeron and All Things Possible...by Andrew Cuomo
Week Seven
(6 October)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading49 Robert Badinter France: The Return of Anti-Semitism
50-51 Bernard Bailyn Hot Dreams of Liberty
Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World by Janet Polasky
52-54 Charles Simic The Incomparable Critic
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry by Helen Vendler
Week Ten
(27 October)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading54-56 Edmund Phelps What is Wrong with the West's Economies?
57-58 Claire Messud Discovery, Bewilderment, Joy
Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes by Per Petterson and I Refuse by Per Petterson
59-61 Kenneth Maxwell Brazil: The Corruption of Progress
Week Eleven
(3 November)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading62-63 Robert Darnton Great New Possibilities for the Library of Congress!
64-66 Christopher R. Browning When Europe Failed
Europe on Trial: The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution...by István Deák
67-68 Tim Parks The Most Influential Invention
White Magic: The Age of Paper by Lothar Müller
Week Twelve
(10 November)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading69-71 Amartya Sen India: The Stormy Revival of an International University
72-73 Ruth Franklin Forced Into a Double Life
The Girl From Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family by Roger Cohen
74-75 Adam Kirsch The Ironic Wisdom of Reinhold Niebhur
Major Works on Religion and Politics by Reinhold Niebhur
Week Thirteen
(18-20 November)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading76-78 Robert O. Paxton A Surprising Prime Minister Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist by Pierre Birnbaum
80-85 Joyce Carol Oates Inspiration and Obsession in Life and Literature
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