 This is your last chance to register for Edwin Frank’s final seminar in his “Political Novel” series. Also available: Daniel Mendelsohn on Greek tragedies, beginning this Wednesday; Fintan O’Toole hosts David Cole and Pamela Karlan for a discussion on The Supreme Court on Thursday; and Amanda Fortini and Meghan Daum on Jan Kerouac’s Baby Driver, next week. Register for these events and more at the links below! Starting Tomorrow! Edwin Frank on H.G. Wells and Ursula K. Le Guin Science fiction has exercised a powerful shaping influence on the modern political novel. H.G. Wells’s breakthrough novella The Time Machine exposes the mirage of progress and in The Island of Dr. Moreau, an inspiration for Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as well as Orwell’s Animal Farm, he depicts a dystopia driven both by colonialist exploitation and scientific enlightenment. Taking off from Wells, our final seminar will turn to Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, in which anarchist collectivism and capitalist liberalism vie in the infinitude of outer space. Edwin Frank is editor of the NYRB Classics series and the author of Stranger than Fiction: The Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel. Three one-hour sessions: November 3, 10, and 17. All sessions will start at 7 PM EST. Full members and auditors will have access to recordings of each session, which may be viewed after the live sessions conclude. The next seminar from Daniel Mendelsohn’s “Drama Queens” series Daniel Mendelsohn on Greek Tragedy The three great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—gave a powerful new expressiveness and a profound interiority to the heroines of myth. In this three-week course, we’ll cover Agamemnon, where Aeschylus gives Clytemnestra a notable complexity, at once deeply sympathetic and horrifyingly violent; Sophocles’ Electra—a remarkably acute portrayal of Clytemnestra's traumatized young daughter, Electra; and Hecuba and Trojan Women by Euripides, famous above all in antiquity for his portrayals of “women on the verge.” Three one-hour sessions: November 5, 12, and 19. All sessions will start at 7pm EST. Full members and auditors will have access to recordings of each session, which may be viewed after the live sessions conclude. Our next panel discussion with Fintan O’Toole The Emergency Court |
domingo, 2 de noviembre de 2025
Last Chance to Register for Our Seminar on H.G. Wells and Ursula K. Le Guin!
Filosofía, poesía y ciencia para empezar noviembre 🍂📚
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