Brilliant Minds - Fall 2024 - Book List

Brilliant Minds - Spring 2025 - Book list

The editions are in! Here are my recommendations:
 

Clouds, by Aristophanes 

Trans. Alan Sommerstein (Penguin Classics)

[Note: I also recommend Jeffrey Henderson's translation. Henderson gets closer to the "raw" language that Aristophanes employed.]

 

Reynard the Fox, by William Caxton

Trans. James Simpson (Liveright)

 

Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare

Eds. Mowat & Werstine (Folger Library/Simon & Schuster)

 

The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie (Norton Critical Edition/W. W. Norton)

 

Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo

Trans. Douglas J. Weatherford (Grove Press)

 

Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata 

Trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove Press)

 

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