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literature
Q+A
Novelist Katharine Noel on family dysfunction
Published Nov 9, 2016
Author, Writing Seminars lecturer reads from her second novel, Meantime, Thursday night at the Ivy Bookshop
Poe rarities on display
Published Oct 3, 2016
'The Enigmatic Edgar A. Poe in Baltimore & Beyond,' which runs through Feb. 5, includes rare manuscripts, materials
Q+A
What 'Don Quixote' teaches us
Published Sept 29, 2016
William Egginton discusses the remarkable life of Miguel de Cervantes and how it shaped his timeless tale, 'Don Quixote'
Zadie Smith reads from her upcoming novel
President's Reading Series
'Tap dancing, blackness, and time'
Published Nov 4, 2015
British author Zadie Smith shares bits of her unpublished fourth novel, 'Swing, Time'
The loneliness of Azar Nafisi
Published March-April 2015
Iranian-born writer, SAIS faculty member offers an antidote to isolation in her new book, 'The Republic of Imagination' / Gazette
Book reports
Reading Series lineup
Published Sept 3, 2014
Visitors include Man Booker Prize recipient, novelist whose debut work made Time's list of 100 best novels
The fugitive essays of T.S. Eliot
Published July-Aug 2014
Johns Hopkins University Press publishes some of the writer's little-seen prose / Gazette
My view
Eighteenth-century selfies?
Published May-June 2014
Elaborate European festival books at Sheridan Libraries are 'kind of the Twitter or the Facebook of the early modern [period]' / Gazette
Q+A
On literature, and chairs
Published April 2, 2014
Irish author Colm Tóibín reads from his ninth novel, 'The Testament of Mary,' in President's Reading Series
Books
Writing Sems grad honored
Published March 20, 2014
Chimamanda Adichie wins National Book Critics Circle Award for her third novel, 'Americanah'