Brilliant Minds - Spring 2025 - Book list
October 30, 2024
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)
Trans. Douglas J. Weatherford (Grove Press)
Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata
Trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove Press)
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