NOTE: You don’t need to order or buy any of these books before arriving on campus. But whenever and wherever you get your books, you must use the editions listed here.
Fall Term
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Alison Bechdel. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Mariner Books.
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ISBN 978-0-618-87171-1 (pbk)
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Plato. The Republic. Trans. Desmond Lee. Penguin.
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ISBN 978-0-140-45511-3 (pbk)
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Bertolt Brecht. The Life of Galileo. Penguin.
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ISBN 978-0-14-310538-1 (pbk)
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Wassily Kandinsky. Improvisation 28
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[The image of this painting will be provided for you when you get to campus] and Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Trans. with introduction by M.T.H. Sadler. Dover Publications.
ISBN: 0-486-23411-8 (pbk)
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Virginia Woolf. A Room of One's Own. Harcourt.
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ISBN 978-0156-03041-0 (pbk)
Winter Term
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Richard Feynman. The Character of Physical Laws. M.I.T. Press.
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ISBN 978-0262560030 (pbk)
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Cornel West. Race Matters. Vintage.
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ISBN 978-0679749868 (pbk)
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Gillo Pontecorvo. The Battle of Algiers. The Criterion Collection (1966) [DVD with pamphlet]
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Jorge Luis Borges. Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. Penguin.
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ISBN 0-14-028680-2 (pbk)
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Igor Stravinsky. The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps).
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CD on CBS Records Masterworks. Entitled “Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Petrushka / Le Sacre du Printemps.” Performance by Igor Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra
pbk = paperback