Lydia Millet’s newest novel,
A Children’s Bible, was nominated for the National Book Award, and called a masterly allegory for the climate crisis. The book follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside.
April 12, 2021
The WSU Common Reading Program has announced the 2021-22 book to be used by first-year and other students in classes and beyond is Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman.
By Beverly Makhani
Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement (DAESA)
The Washington State University Common Reading Program has announced the 2021-22 book to be used by first-year and other students in classes and beyond is
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman.
Electronic desk copies will be made available soon to faculty who might wish to incorporate topics from the book into their courses.
Via the British Library’s Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts.
This article is adapted from this year’s acceptance speech for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, awarded by the National Book Critics Circle.
It’s such an honor to receive an award named for Nona Balakian, a real dynamo among book review editors, on such a list of nominees, and in such a
year. 2020 struck awe into the hearts of men. A new plague took almost 600,000 Americans, and we saw their end-of-life iPads waiting for them on tripods. When police took Black American lives, and we saw that on camera too, it seemed like the whole world stepped outside in solidarity and anger.
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