Enheduana, The Complete Poems, trans. Helle,  (Yale)

Euripides, Helen, in: Ion, Helen, Orestes, trans. Svarlien, UK ed. (Hackett)

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, eds. Mowat & Werstine (Folger)

Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, ed. Dobr’ee (Oxford) 

Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City, trans. Lorenz (New Directions)

Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II, trans. Searls (Transit)

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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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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 

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