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21 Articles Categorized Under Common Reads

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
August 11 2020

Cornell Professor Kate Manne on the Pursuit of Gender Justice

Contributed by Kate Manne, author of Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women CW: This post contains descriptions of misogynistic and sexual violence On Friday May 23, 2014, I was an assistant professor just finishing up my first year of teaching at Cornell University. Scrolling through my Facebook feed, I saw reports of a horrible crime

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Cornell Professor Kate Manne on the Pursuit of Gender Justice

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
August 11 2020
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Literature
August 3 2020

Riverhead Recommends: Black Voices and Stories

Founded in 1994, Riverhead Books publishes bestselling literary fiction and quality nonfiction. Throughout its history, Riverhead has been dedicated to publishing extraordinary groundbreaking, unique writers including Danielle Evans, Danzy Senna, and James McBride. Collected here are some works from Black writers published by Riverhead. Their stories articulate the Black experience in America and give voice

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Riverhead Recommends: Black Voices and Stories

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Literature
August 3 2020
Common Reads Literature
July 23 2020

Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A BURNING is an urgent story of class, fate, corruption, and justice

A Burning is a novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of

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Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A BURNING is an urgent story of class, fate, corruption, and justice

Common Reads Literature
July 23 2020
Common Reads Disability Studies Literature
July 13 2020

DISABILITY VISIBILITY is an urgent collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.

Activist Alice Wong presents a galvanizing collection of thirty-seven essays by disabled people just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her

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DISABILITY VISIBILITY is an urgent collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.

Common Reads Disability Studies Literature
July 13 2020
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 8 2020

Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Nickel Boys. This is his second Pulitzer Prize (his novel The Underground Railroad won in 2017) and he is only the fourth writer—alongside Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike—to win two Pulitzer Prizes each in the Fiction category. Winner, ALA Alex Award Winner,

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Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 8 2020
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
January 6 2020

David Wallace-Wells on the Science and “Humanities” of Climate Change

Contributed by David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth Climate change is not a single subject, or a single story, but the theater in which all human life is now conducted, transforming and reordering nearly every aspect of modern life—our infrastructure and our migration patterns, our cities and our energy systems and our agriculture, our

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David Wallace-Wells on the Science and “Humanities” of Climate Change

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
January 6 2020
Common Reads
October 17 2019

2020 Catalogs for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year reading catalogs for 2020! From award-winning fiction and memoir to new books about science, technology, history and current events, the titles presented in our college reading catalogs will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages, but also excited for the chance to discuss their reading

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2020 Catalogs for First-Year & Common Reading

Common Reads
October 17 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
September 26 2019

Interviews, Reviews, and News: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, has been called the most anticipated novel of the year. Gilead and the world of the handmaids have inspired a successful TV adaptation, as well as protests against U.S. healthcare restrictions and the controversial confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Awarded the 2019 Booker Prize, The Testaments has

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Interviews, Reviews, and News: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
September 26 2019
Common Reads General Humanities & Social Sciences
July 15 2019

FROM THE PAGE: Eat Like A Fish

Seaweed is a sustainable, easy-to-produce ocean vegetable that has a positive impact on climate change and our environment. Why then is it not a staple ingredient used in American kitchens? In his recently published memoir, fisherman-turned-ocean farmer Bren Smith aims to change that through his tales of ocean-bound adventure and culinary re-imagination. In the following

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FROM THE PAGE: Eat Like A Fish

Common Reads General Humanities & Social Sciences
July 15 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 21 2019

Documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am arrives in theaters

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am profiles the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of international acclaim, featuring interviews with Morrison herself, Robert Gottlieb, Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, Walter Mosley, and more. The documentary portrays Morrison in an intimate, human light: examining her life, works, and the philosophies woven throughout the stories she tells. In the video

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Documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am arrives in theaters

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 21 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 19 2019

Immigration and the American Idea: Abdi Nor Iftin shares his journey from Somalia to America

Immigration Heritage Month serves as a reminder to  celebrate individual stories of immigration, and the shared diversity that makes up the United States. This year at the 38th annual conference on The First-Year Experience, author Abdi Nor Iftin shared his journey from war-torn Somalia to the United States—first by way of American movies, and years later

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Immigration and the American Idea: Abdi Nor Iftin shares his journey from Somalia to America

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 19 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 5 2019

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale retold through illustrations

Season 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale kicks off on Wednesday, June 05, with Hulu releasing new episodes each week. Hulu has described the new season as being “driven by June’s resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead and her struggle to strike back against overwhelming odds.” Just in time for the season premiere, Nan A. Talese

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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale retold through illustrations

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
June 5 2019
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