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Here is the book list for the upcoming Brilliant Minds - Fall 2023 semester:
Cicero, The Nature of the Gods, trans. P.G. Walsh (Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199540068
Plutarch, A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, trans. Robin Waterfield (Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199537389
Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, trans. Anthony Bale (Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199686643
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, eds. Mowat & Wresting (Folger)
ISBN: 9780743482745
George Sand, Indiana, trans. Sylvia Raphael (Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199540488
Robert Glück, Margery Kempe, intro. Colm Toibin (NYRB Classics)
ISBN: 9781681374314
Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies, trans. Marilyn Booth (Catapult)
ISBN: 9781948226943
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Here is our Summer reading list!
Audrey Magee, The Colony (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth (Penguin)
Genya Turovskaya, The Breathing Body of This Thought (Black Square)
Andrey Kurkov, Gray Bees, trans. Boris Dralyuk (Deep Vellum)
Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob, trans. Jennifer Croft (Riverhead)
Annie Ernaux, The Years, trans. Alison L. Strayer (Seven Stories)
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Brilliant Minds — Spring 2023 Readings:
Apuleius, The Golden Ass, trans. Walsh (Oxford)
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, eds. Mowat & Werstine (Folger)
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, ed. Watts (Oxford)
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise (New Press)
Louise Glück, The Wild Iris (Ecco)
Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees (Penguin)
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Here is our reading list in recommended editions for Fall 2022:
Euripides, Hippolytus, trans. Grene, in Euripides I (U Chicago)
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, eds. Mowat & Werstine (Folger)
Jean Racine, Phèdre, trans. Ted Hughes (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Albert Camus, The Stranger, trans. Matthew Ward (Vintage)
Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed (Hogarth)
Kamel Daoud, The Mersault Investigation, trans. John Cullen (Oneworld)
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