Reading
Jun ‘24 Nagel, Thomas. Mortal Questions. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Sapolsky, Robert M. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. W. H. Freeman, 1994.
May ‘24 Murakami, Haruki. Sputnik Sweetheart. Kodansha International, 2001.
Murakami, Haruki. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Kodansha International, 1991.
Zelazny, Roger. The Dream Master. Ace Books, 1966.
Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. Penguin Books, 2004.
Apr ‘24 Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. Random House, 2010.
Mason, Daniel. North Woods. Random House, 2023.
Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations. The Modern Library, 1994.
Mar ‘24 Britt, Ryan. The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, from Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies. Plume, 2023.
Cassidy, John. How Markets Fail: The Economics of Rational Irrationality. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Fricker, Miranda. Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Martine, Arkady. A Desolation Called Peace. Tor Books, 2021.
Feb. ‘24 Delany, Samuel R. Babel-17. Gregg Press, 1978.
Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
Whyte, William H. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Project for Public Spaces, 2001.
Alexander, Christopher, et al. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Oxford University Press, 1977.
Eberhardt, Jennifer L. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do. Penguin Books, 2019.
Jan ‘24 Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018.
Bogle, John C. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns. Wiley, 2007.
Kidder, Tracy. Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People. Random House, 2023.
Desmond, Matthew. Poverty, by America. Crown, 2023.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, 2002