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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Here is the list for our Summer reading!

Wild Swims, by Dorthe Nors

The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021, by Yusef Komunyakaa

In Memory of Memory, by Maria Stepanova 

Walking on Cowrie Shells, by Nana Nkweti

Sea of Tranquility: A novel, by Emily St. John Mandel 

Sophocles, Philoctetes, trans. Meineck (Hackett Classics) 

Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Plautus, The Pot of Gold, in Four Comedies, trans. Segal (Oxford UP)

Molière, The Miser, trans. Wood & Coward (Penguin Classics)

Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, eds. Mowat & Werstine (Folger)

Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time (Hogarth)

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ed. Davies (Penguin Classics)

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, intro. Danticat (Norton) 

Here are links related to our recent discussion of Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française:

David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair

Fire in the Blood

The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter

A Strange and Beautiful Book About a Mother Who Disappeared

Franz Werfel:

Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand

Eine blaßblaue Frauenschrift

For our upcoming session, I suggest you read "Guigemar" and "Yönec." Then, consider these groupings:

• Le Chaitivel, Bisclavret, Equitan
• Lanval, Le Fresne, Eliduc
• Milun, Laüstic, Chevrefoil, Les Deux Amanz

In addition, here are two great resources you can use to prepare for our reading and discussion of the Lais of Marie de France:

British Library:

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-lays-and-fables-of-marie-de-france

Kathy Krause:

https://middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/“lais”-marie-de-france

Cite:

Krause, Kathy. “The Lais of Marie de France,” Middle Ages for Educators, April 10, 2020. Accessed[date]. https://middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/node/266/