Open Book
No CommentApple’s Steve Jobs recently uttered the bromide that people don’t read anymore. Don’t tell that to people connected to the College of Arts and Science. Here’s a selected bibliography of what we are reading now.
Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
Bearing Witness against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement by Michael P. Young
The Art of Moral Protest by James Jasper
— Steven Jay Tepper, assistant professor of sociology and associate director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy
The six published volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
— Lewis V. Baldwin, professor of religious studies
Information/news online daily: VU Today, The Nashville Scene, The Tennessean, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Yahoo and AOL headlines
— Cathy Marchal Zebron, webmistress, Department of Economics and editorial assistant for The Journal of Public Economic Theory and The Economics Bulletin
“Electromagnetic decays of light mesons,” Physical Reports
Kyra by Carol Gilligan (the author is my mother-in-law)
Patrick O’Brian series set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars (audio)
— Victoria Greene, professor of physics and director of graduate studies
Invitations to Geometry and Topology by Martin Bridson and Simon Salamon
Lecture Notes on Nilpotent Groups by Gilbert Baumslag
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
— Tara C. Davis, graduate student, mathematics
The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema by Hilary Neroni
Under Orders by Dick Francis (audio)
The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss (for my 3-year-old daughter)
— Jeff Ullom, assistant professor of theatre and director of honors studies program
“It’s Not My Fault: Global Warming and Individual Moral Obligations” in Perspectives on Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics, Ethics by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Complicity by Christopher Kutz
Small World by David Lodge
The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy by Nigel Worden
— Whitney Kane, senior, English, mathematics, philosophy
The New York Times and The New Yorker (faithfully but selectively, i.e. not cover to cover)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice by Bonnie Miller-McLemore
— Patricia Armstrong, senior lecturer of French and Italian and assistant director, Center for Teaching
Photo by John Russell.
