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You’ve now completed all four parts of the London Book Club series, Hitchcock in London. We look forward to seeing you back for the next London Book Club. In the meantime, be...
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You’ve now completed all four parts of the Kylemore Book Club series, Understanding the Body with W.B. Yeats and James Joyce. We look forward to seeing you back for the next...
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You’ve now completed all four parts of the Kylemore Book Club series, “Literature & film in Lockdown.” Stay tuned as we will be releasing a new podcast with reading notes...
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Meet the faculty
Barry McCrea is a scholar of comparative literature and a novelist. His novel, The First Verse, won the 2006 Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction and a Barnes & Noble “Discover”...
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Additional Resources
Readings: Excerpt from Plato’s Republic on the importance of character in living a good life (an interactive text). More information about philosophy Christian Miller’s book...
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Christopher Beha, Author and Editor
Christopher Beha is the author of a memoir, The Whole Five Feet, and the novels Arts & Entertainments and What Happened to Sophie Wilder. His latest novel, The Index of...
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Renaissance Dante in Print
This exhibition presents Renaissance editions of Dante’s Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with...
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Professor Meghan Sullivan on Plato’s Republic
Professor Meghan Sullivan she speaks about Plato’s Republic (ca. 375 BC), as part of “The Book That Changed My Life” series from the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture....
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Savor the Inexplicable
Tragedy and joy collided in my life the week my father died unexpectedly and my wife —equally unexpectedly — discovered she was pregnant. My view of the universe changed, too,...
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Book: The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
From the publisher: Here, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital that prioritizes people over profit. First, we...
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Book: Jewels of authority: women and textual tradition in Hindu India
From the Publisher: The essays in Jewels of Authority address the problem of Hindu women’s relationship to authority, both within and without the textual traditions of Sanskrit,...
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Book: The Bhagavad Gita
Penguin Classics has published Laurie Patton’s translation of, and commentary on, the Bhagavad Gita. From publisher: The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the...
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