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Explore the captivating world of literature in the heart of NYC with a range of classes covering diverse genres, from classic literature and poetry to modern fiction and creative writing, where participants can enhance their understanding and appreciation for the written word.

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Culture, Feeling, and Capital

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Culture, Feeling, and Capital: An Introduction to Raymond Williams Activist, critic, and key figure in the development of cultural studies, Raymond Williams was among the most influential radical intellectuals of the 20th century. The concepts and approaches he developed or helped to popularize—“structures of feeling,” “cultural materialism,” “keywords,” “dominant, residual, and emergent”—continue to shape new work in cultural...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Madness: Society and the Psyche

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

From the start, Western philosophy, literature, and medicine have been preoccupied—and haunted—with the figure of the mad and the idea of madness. What lies at the root of seemingly strange irruptions of emotion, speech, and erratic behavior? Do they arise by happenstance, or are they symptoms of disturbances in the body, the mind, the psyche, the soul, humours, and the like? Does the behavior of the mad reveal secret messages, canny prophecies,...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Literature and Colonialism: Joseph Conrad & Tayeb Salih

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Famously excoriated by Chinua Achebe as an “offensive and deplorable” dehumanization of the lives of Africans, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness may be one of the most intensively scrutinized and adapted works of modern European literature. Achebe’s critique has since been contested, not least as a deliberate misreading of Conrad’s own perhaps ambivalent understanding of the industrialized barbarism of Belgian colonialism in the Congo....

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Wonderful, Wonderful Times: Reading Elfriede Jelinek

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Explore the provocative works of Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Prize-winning author, in this course from the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Analyze Jelinek's anti-realist technique, the influence of capitalism and fascism on sex and romance, and the role of myth in her worldview. Discover how her writings challenge societal norms and provide a lens into life after liberal humanism.

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$335

4 sessions

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The Samsung Way: Corporate Book Event

The Korea Society

A bestseller in Korea, with over 100,000 copies sold, The Samsung Way reveals the management principles driving one of the world’s most innovative Korean companies. Having conducted over 80 interviews with senior Samsung executives, Dr. Jaeyong Song discusses the compelling transformation of Samsung from a low-cost original equipment manufacturer to a global leader and industry competitor of Apple, Intel, GE and Microsoft.

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Without You, There Is No Us

The Korea Society

Suki Kim, who has written about North Korea for Harper's and The New York Review of Books, discusses Without You, There Is No Us, her fascinating new book which chronicles her six month stay in North Korea, where she taught English to the sons of the North Korean elite at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology during the end of Kim Jong Il’s reign. The book will be available for sale and a reception and...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Reading Boccaccio’s the Decameron with Joseph Luzzi

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

“It is human to have compassion for the suffering.” So begins Giovanni Boccaccio’s extraordinary classic, the Decameron, a collection of one hundred short stories written in 1353, just five years after the Great Plague of 1348 that claimed millions of lives throughout Europe and more than half of the population of Boccaccio’s hometown, Florence. Boccaccio’s work has long been celebrated for its bawdy humor and open consideration of...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$385

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Food Memoirs Reading Group

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program ___________ Food-lovers know that the stories of our lives are often told in the kitchen. Spend the last weeks of summer digging into some these stories in our Food Memoirs reading group, led by Kitchen Arts and Letters’ Laura Jackson. Get together to explore the personal accounts of four legendary chefs—Michael...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$175

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Best of World Literature

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

Enjoy the stunning work of these authors from around the world. Please read Natalia Ginzburg’s Happiness, as Such for the first class, Kobo Abe’s The Woman in the Dunes for the second, the first half of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook for the third, the second half of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook for the fourth, and Anna Burns’ Milkman for the final session. Please read each work before the corresponding session..

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$175

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Memoirs: Jewish Authors on Identity, Culture, Language

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

Memoirists write their personal stories in a way that appeals to the emotions and experiences of their readers. Jewish memoirists Esther Amini, Angela Himsel, and Ilan Stavans will sit down with author Marcia Butler to talk about how they use the memoir format to express their identity and history.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Reading the Divided Self

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

Join Colm Tóibín, celebrated author of Brooklyn and professor at Columbia University, for a course on three Irish writers and three American writers. The divided self and the delighted eye—this course explores the idea of internal tension in a text, literature in which there is an argument enfolding, an argument that animates the text; as well as the idea of a double life, or a life that contains opposites, and the power of memory—how uncertain...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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The Five Great Works of Fiction You Need to Read…Now

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

Join author Stephanie Rabinowitz for an exciting exploration of relatively unsung American literary gems that you should be reading. From Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop to John Williams’s Stoner, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Henry James’s What Maisie Knew, and Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose, Rabinowitz will focus on the rare and masterful ability of these authors to create narrators with...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth and Morality

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY

Friedrich Nietzsche is among the most notorious and controversial thinkers in the western intellectual tradition. He aimed to philosophize “with a hammer,” to demolish the philosophical tradition founded by Socrates and Plato and slaughter its most sacred cows. Central to that tradition is the value placed on truth, reason, objectivity, and a moral system based on altruism and self-sacrifice. In contrast to forming the bedrock of a stable political...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

4 sessions

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RAAAATSCRAPS: The Best Improv Show in the World

Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY

RaaaatScraps is the World's Best Improv Show from the people who produced Asssscat. Join a surprise guest monologist and NYC's best improvisers, many from The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, who have been seen on Broad City, High Maintenance, Succession, Severance, Somebody Somewhere, Difficult People, Search Party, Mrs. Maisel, The Chris Gethard Show, Kimmy Schmidt, MCU, 30 Rock & More.

(25) All levels 21 and older
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$27.20
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Literature B2/C1/C2 - Advanced/Expert

French Institute Alliance Française @ 22 E 60th St, New York, NY

Read classic and contemporary writing in French! Books and themes change each session. Literature makes a major contribution to a nation’s cultural heritage and exposure to authentic written texts is one of the many ways foreign language learners can improve their language proficiency. In this course, discover classic and contemporary French and Francophone literature through the analysis and discussion of major literary works, either focusing...

(13) All levels 18 and older
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$449

10 sessions

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