Brilliant Minds

Reading List Downloads

Here are Spring 2011 Brilliant Minds Reading Lists for NYU Students in PDF format for download:

Section 1:  Download BMS2011_List1

Section 2:  Download BMS2011_List2

Syllabi for Brilliant Minds at NYU

Welcome & welcome back! Our reading list with editions and schedules for both sections are here. Just click the link for your section:

Section 1 (Tuesday mornings): Download BM1_Syllabus_F10_s1

Section 2 (Wednesday evenings): Download BM1_Syllabus_F10_s2

Summer & Fall 2010 Book Lists

For those who've asked & those who are interested, here are the books on our reading lists for Summer & Fall 2010 (specific editions & translations with links to be announced):

Literature for the 21st Century: Summer 2010

1. Roberto Bolano, The Skating Rink
2. Mahmoud Darwish, A River Dies of Thirst: journals
3. Breyten Breytenbach, All One Horse
4. Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)
5. Eduardo Galeano, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
6. Herta Muller, Nadirs (European Women Writers)
7. Stella Feehily, Dreams of Violence

Brilliant Minds: Fall 2010

1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon (trans. Arcese, 2nd ed. forthcoming May 2010)
2. Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe (Oxford World's Classics)
3. Anonymous, Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
4. Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare, Pelican)
5. Behn, Oroonoko (Penguin Classics)
6. Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)
7. Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
8. Maugham, Of Human Bondage (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
9. Millay, Renascence & Other Poems in The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Modern Library Classics)
10. Oates, The Falls: A Novel (P.S.)

Spring Book List

Our Spring 2010 Brilliant Minds book list is now available for download in printable PDF format:

Download BMSpring2010

For Aristotle, we will concentrate our reading on selections from the Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, and Poetics.

Our Fall 2009 reading list

You can download a copy of our Reading List & Schedule for the Fall 2009 sessions of Brilliant Minds at NYU:

Brilliant Minds Section 1

Brilliant Minds Section 2