Open Book

Arts and Science people always have books and magazines on their reading, just read and to-read-next lists. Some are for courses, some for research and some are for sheer pleasure.

• Notes on Democracy by H.L. Mencken
• In Defense of Freedom and Related Essays by Frank S. Meyer
• Freedom and Federalism by Felix Morley
• The Man Versus The State by Herbert Spencer
• Reading now: Saint Augustine’s Confessions

—Keith Neely, junior, history

• The Wall Street Journal, mediapost.com (daily)
• Advertising Age
• Flight Journal Magazine, Car and Driver, Cooking Light, Cook’s Illustrated
• Just read: The Good Life by Peter Gomes (I’m a faculty VUceptor)
• The Idea Writers by Teressa Iezzi
• A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas by Ethan S. Rafuse
• Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander ed. by Gary W. Gallagher
• The Pembroke Welsh Corgi by Susan W. Ewing
• Reading concurrently: Generals South, Generals North by Alan Axelrod
• The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
• Next: Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided The Civil War by Jack Hurst
• Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

As you can tell, I like reading about the American Civil War.

—Arthur Johnsen, associate professor of the practice of managerial studies

• The Good Life by Peter Gomes (another VUceptor)
• A Time to Kill by John Grisham

—Newton Adkins, sophomore, Latin American studies