External Links
2022-23
Interview with Colson Whitehead about Harlem Shuffle
Unpacking My Library", Walter Benjamin
"The Aleph", Jorge Luis Borges
Banville on Henry James and "Portrait of a Lady"
Vocabulary Worksheet for Banville (for extra credit)
Harlem and the End of the Civil Rights Era
Babel’s Red Cavalry: Story, History, and the Hidden Plot, with Gregory (Grisha) Freidin
2020-21
The Memory Police: Questions and Connections
2019-20
Supporting documents about Untouchables:
The Annihilation of Caste, a speech by B.R. Ambedhar
Supporting documents about Cracking India:
Link to Earth, 1947,a movie adaptation of Cracking India
Character Chart for Cracking India
Supporting documents about Conde:
“Reading Outside the Mangrove" by Ronnie Scharfman
"Giving Voice to Guadeloupe" by Maryse Conde, February 6, 2019, The New York Review of Books
"Crossing the Mangrove of Order and Prejudice" by Pascale de Souza
"Reconfiguring Boundaries in Maryse Conde's Crossing the Mangrove" by Deborah B. Gaensbauer
2018-19
New York Times review of The Door by Claire Messud
New Yorker review You may need a digital subscription to read.
Cather on Cather from the New York Times
James McBride on Toni Morrison, Feb. 26, 2019
2015-16: Short Novels
"The Sweetness of Short Novels" by Ingrid Norton, a list of short novels and reviews at Open letters Monthly, a literary review site.
Turn of the Screw, Henry James
Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Reading The Scarlet Letter by Amanada Claybaugh, Harvard Extension School
Interview with William Maxwell in The Paris Review from 1982
Review from Open Letters Monthly, as part of their short novel series
John Updike's New Yorker review, 2006
One critic's ten best Murakami novels
2013-14
Kathryn Schultz's review of Americanah, originally from New York magazine, May, 2013
2011-12
Paul Robeson's "Ballad for Americans"
Some biographical info about Henry Roth
Salinger's last Glass story, "Hapworth 16, 1924."
Salinger's, "A Perfect Day for Bananfish"
2010-11
Auden's poem, "The Shield of Achilles"
"How to Read a Novel" by Amanda Claybaugh
Professor of English, Harvard University
(from Grant) The digested Immoralist. "Snarky, but funny to me at least."
(referenced by Peter) "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold.
(from Rhea) Article on Danticat from the NYTimes Book Review.
"Parsley" a poem by Rita Dove
"The River Massacre: The Real and Imagined Borders of Hispaniola" by Michele Wucker
Did you know that Andrew lloyd Webber wrote a musical of The Woman in White?
Interesting website with different editions of WinW
1860 review of WinW by E.S.Dallas in The Times of London, in the appendix of the Broadview edition of the novel
Two different reviews from the NYTimes: D.T. Max, Oct. 24, 2008, and Richard Eder, Nov. 11, 2008
Frederic March in "Death Takes a Holiday" (1934), in six parts on YouTube
New Yorker article on Eliot (digital subscription required to read full article)
Section from "The Valley of Humiliation"
Eileen Atkins reading Mill on the Floss, scene with Bob Jakin and Aunt Glegg
Mary Shelley in Frankenstein on Werther
2009-10
Review of Only Yesterday in The New Republic