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    Do You Teach Comparative Literature?

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    Do You Teach Comparative Literature?
    Literature
    August 30 2023

    Do You Teach Comparative Literature?

    You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which cover LGBTQIA+ Literature, Feminist Theory and Literary Criticism, Science Fiction, Immigrant and Refugee Literature, Mythology and Folklore, and more. Here is a small selection of the books available: LGBTQIA+ Literature Feminist Theory and Literary Criticism Science Fiction Immigrant and Refugee Literature   Mythology

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    Literature
    August 30 2023
    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Nick McDonell’s <i>Quiet Street</i>
    Political Science Sociology Anthropology
    August 28 2023

    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Nick McDonell’s Quiet Street

    Quiet Street is a bold and moving exploration of the American elite that exposes how the ruling class perpetuates cycles of wealth, power, and injustice. Searing and precise yet always deeply human, Quiet Street examines the problem of America’s one-percenters, whose vision of a more just world never materializes. Who are these people, how do they hold

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    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Nick McDonell’s Quiet Street

    Political Science Sociology Anthropology
    August 28 2023
    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Donovan X. Ramsey’s <i>When Crack Was King</i>
    History Sociology
    August 24 2023

    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Donovan X. Ramsey’s When Crack Was King

    The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan’s war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey’s exacting analysis in When Crack Was King traces the path from the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement to the devastating realities we

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    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Donovan X. Ramsey’s When Crack Was King

    History Sociology
    August 24 2023
    <i>Kind of a Big Deal</i> author Saul Austerlitz shares his love of comedy with his students
    Humanities & Social Sciences
    August 23 2023

    Kind of a Big Deal author Saul Austerlitz shares his love of comedy with his students

    For the last eight years, I’ve welcomed students to Writing About American Comedy, the class I teach at NYU, with a challenge of sorts.  After our introductions and hellos and our perusal of the syllabus, I pop open the portable DVD player attached to my laptop and cue up Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. 

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    Humanities & Social Sciences
    August 23 2023
    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Jacob Mikanowski’s <i>Goodbye, Eastern Europe</i>
    History
    August 21 2023

    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Jacob Mikanowski’s Goodbye, Eastern Europe

    Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years that illuminates the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history.   Part I Faiths 1 Pagans and Christians A great forest, bristling with dangers and the occasional gleam of treasure: that is

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    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Jacob Mikanowski’s Goodbye, Eastern Europe

    History
    August 21 2023
    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Tahir Hamut Izgil’s <i>Waiting to Be Arrested at Night</i>
    Political Science History
    August 16 2023

    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Tahir Hamut Izgil’s Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

    Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is a poet’s account of one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family’s escape from genocide.   One A Phone Call from Beijing I keep returning to the first day of 2013. That evening, I received an unexpected call from Ilham Tohti,

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    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Tahir Hamut Izgil’s Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

    Political Science History
    August 16 2023
    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Javier Zamora’s <i>Solito</i>
    Literature Latinx and Hispanic
    August 8 2023

    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Javier Zamora’s Solito

    In Solito, a young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine.   Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book Award Finalist

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    Books for Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month
    Latinx and Hispanic
    August 3 2023

    Books for Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month

    Penguin Random House Education is proud to celebrate Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs annually from September 15th through October 15th.  We are highlighting the works of our authors and illustrators from the Latinx and Hispanic community, whose stories and characters have a profound impact on our society. Here is a selection of titles

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    Latinx and Hispanic
    August 3 2023
    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from John Vaillant’s <i>Fire Weather</i>
    Environmental Science
    August 1 2023

    FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from John Vaillant’s Fire Weather

    Fire Weather is a stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind. With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America’s oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern forest

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    Environmental Science
    August 1 2023
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