Papaioanou Professor Emerita of Biological SciencesĪn Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine. The book is well written with great examples. Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez looks at how various public policies (for example in education, health care, urban design) are suboptimal as they fail to account for gender. Filled with joy and heartbreak, where the last chapter still haunts me.
A work of auto-fiction about a girl growing up in Nunavut mixes fact, fiction and myth. The books simultaneously tell you enough of her encounters, but also leave you wanting more. This trilogy tells the story of a female writer and her encounters with friends and strangers. Outline Trilogy (Outline, Transit, and Kudos) by Rachel Cusk. Much later she gets access to her more than 2000-page file and begins to reflect on it and what it means to be surveilled. As an American anthropologist doing research in Romania in the 1970s and 1980s, Katherine Verderey was - unbeknownst to her - the subject of secret service surveillance until the collapse of communism in the late 1980s. Her neighbor turns up dead and soon the mystery deepens. Janina lives in a small Polish village where she spends her days translating poetry and taking care of near-by summer homes.
In telling the story of the changes in her conservative circles over the past 20 years, her argument about the twilight of democracy is compelling, even though the book is missing any discussion about the role of conservatives and their policy successes in these changes.ĭrive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. The author has had unique access to the world of conservative politicians in the United States, Britain and Poland. Through conversations about the rules of mysteries, you begin to sense that there is a mystery within the story that slowly unfolds as you read. Tells the story of an editor working with an author on an old manuscript.
Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir, Professor of Politics and Associate Dean of the Faculty Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler.A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabelle Allende.This year, the titles that have two or more recommendations are: Sylvester is a contributor again this year, as is another founding contributor, Anne Thompson, English professor emerita. Back in the day, Potter recalls how sociology professor Sawyer Sylvester, one of the earliest Good Reads contributors, would submit his titles with great formality - like a “Letter of Transit” in Casablanca - “on a single sheet of paper, trifold, printed off the computer, and always signed!” Today’s submissions are all electronic, of course. The critically praised novel Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony ’96 was a multiple recommendation this year.
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