Get ready for Summer 2007 at NYU. Our study of contemporary literature continues with Literature for the 21st Century from May 24 to July 19, 2007.

Readings include: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, An Illiad by Alessandro Baricco, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, The Sea by John Banville; After: Poems by Jane Hirschfield, The Exonerated by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.

Reading selections for Dostoevsky's The Karamazov Brothers (trans. Avsey):

PART I
Book One
Chapters: 1, 4, 5

Book Two
Chapters: 3, 4, 5, 6

Book Three
Chapters: 3, 4, 5, 7, 8

PART II
Book Four
Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7

Book Five
Chapters: 5, 7

Book Six
Chapters: 2, 3

PART III
Book Seven
Chapters: 2, 3, 4

Book Eight
Chapters: 4, 8

Book Nine
Chapters: 3, 4, 5, 7, 8

PART IV
Book Ten
Chapters: 4, 6, 7

Book Eleven
Chapters: 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10

Book Twelve
Chapters: 10, 14

EPILOGUE
Chapters: 2, 3