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Inferno
(first part of The Divine Comedy)
by Dante Alighieri
(Robert Pinsky, Robin Kirkpatrick, or Dorothy Sayers suggested renditions)
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On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
by Ilan Stavans
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The Odyssey
by Homer
(Robert Fagles, Peter Green, or Emily Wilson suggested renditions)
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Septembre12, 2023
Short stories by Clarice Lispector:
"LOVE, (pdf version)" "REMNANTS OF CARNIVAL (pdf version)," "HAPPY BIRTHDAY (pdf version)," and "REPORT ON THE THING (pdf version)"
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October 10, 2023
Arabian Nights
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The character of Scheherazade will be discussed. It shows up starting in the introduction and throughout the book. Three sagas will also be discussed: "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor." If there is extra time, we may add "The Fisherman and the Jinni."
December 12, 2023
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
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February 14, 2023
Three stories by Jorge Luis Borges:"Funes, the Memorious," "The Secret Miracle," "The Aleph"
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March 14, 2023
Four poems by Emily Dickinson:"I dwell in Possibility," "'Hope' is the thing with feathers," "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain," "I never heard the word 'Escape'," "I'm Nobody!"
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April 11, 2023
and
The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language
Edited by Ilan Stavans
The dictionary can be found at
May 9, 2023
Edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
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September 13, 2022
Poems, Protest, and a Dream by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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April 12, 2022
"One of These Days", by Gabriel García Márquez. Translated by Gregory Rabassa (story)
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley
PASSING by Nella Larsen
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLKS by W.E.B. Du Bois
ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe
METAMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka
CHEKHOV: STORIES FOR OUR TIME by Anton Chekhov
DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoevski
ON POLITICS AND POWER by Niccoló Machiavelli
POPOL VUH: A RETELLING by Ilan Stavans
NIGHT AND DAY
by Virginia Woolf
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