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New York Review of Books (NYRB) Syllabus

All Classes

Autumn 2016

Robert André LaFleur                                                             Office Hours:

Morse Ingersoll 111                                                                 Monday           12:05-1:35

363-2005                                                                                   Wednesday    12:05-1:35

lafleur@beloit.edu                                                                    …or by appointment

NYRB readings will be "due" on Mondays in all classes unless I tell you otherwise through e-mail or in class.

This semester, we will read the complete issue of 

The New York Review of Books for July 14, 2016

Week One 

(22 August)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Read all front matter (cover, inside-cover advertisement, table of contents, contributors) 

Week Two

(29 August)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
8-10  Hilton Als, "The Heroic Art of Agnes Martin"           
            Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal 

Week Three
(5 September)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
4-6      Cathleen Schine, "Weiner!"            
              Weiner a documentary film directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg

Week Four 

(12 September)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
19-21  Patricia Storace, "The Shock of the Little" 
              Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse (museum exhibition)

Week Five  
(19 September)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
21-23  Paul Krugman, "Money: The Brave New Uncertainty of Mervyn King" 
              The End of Alchemy by Mervyn King 

Week Six
(26 September)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
24-26  Helen Vendler, "Wallace Stevens: The Real and the Made-up" 
              The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani

Week Seven

(3 October)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
30-31  Darryl Pinckney, "Blacks and Jews Entangled" 
              Oreo by Fran Ross 

Week Ten 

(24 October)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
28-30  David Cole, "The Terror of Our Guns" 
              Multiple texts

Week Eleven 

(31 October)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
32-34  James Romm, "The Great Rescue in Timbuktu" 
               The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer

Week Twelve 

(7 November)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
35-36  Peter Brooks, "On the Track of Evil in Dublin" 
              Even the Dead by Benjamin Black

Week Thirteen

(14 November)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
37-39  Peter Brown, "The Glow of Byzantium"  
              Multiple texts

Week Fourteen

(21 November)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
40-41  Fintan O'Toole, "The Ultimate Oedipus at the Opera"             
              Oedipe by George Enescu

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