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Shake Up Your Winter Reading

December 11, 2020 by Michelle Bryant

Winter 2020-21 books from our college community.

Simone de Beauvoir in foreground with a stack of letters tied with string in background.

Writing to Beauvoir

November 12, 2020 by Amy Vidor

In her new book, Sex, Love, and Letters, Judith Coffin reveals the private lives and intimate bond found in Simone de Beauvoir’s letters with her fans.

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Ticket to Read

October 20, 2020 by Michelle Bryant

Fall 2020 books from our college community.

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How Bias Sneaks into Big-Data Policing

October 19, 2020 by Alex Reshanov

Like all human endeavors, technology is at its core still social, argues Sarah Brayne in her new book Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing.

Books by Black Studies at UT faculty

Want to Learn More About Race in America? Read this.

September 2, 2020 by Rachel White

Authors from UT Austin’s College of Liberal Arts describe their books and what they hope readers will learn.

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Turning the Past into Poetry

June 26, 2020 by Alex Reshanov

H.W. Brands hopes his latest book, Haiku History: The American Saga Three Lines at a Time, won’t be a page turner.

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This Summer is One For the Books

June 19, 2020 by Michelle Bryant

Summer 2020 books from our college community.

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Race By Any Other Name

April 21, 2020 by Alex Reshanov

In her award-winning book, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng argues that race did exist even if the language of the time had yet to capture the phenomenon.

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Books in Bloom

April 17, 2020 by Michelle Bryant

Spring 2020 books from our college community.

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Season’s Readings

December 18, 2019 by Michelle Bryant

Winter 2019-20 books from our college community.

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The Taco Truck: Author Takes His Research to the Streets

November 19, 2019 by Rachel White

Robert Lemon examines the evolution of taco trucks and how it transforms U.S. cities.

Colorado Town

Dreams of El Dorado

October 21, 2019 by Tori Miller

The rapid growth of America came as a shock to some, as it was the only country whose expansion occurred with such little government supervision.  In Dreams of El Dorado, author H.W. Brands recounts the rich history of the American West. Beginning with the purchase of the Louisiana territory, which propelled future Western expansion of […]

Book cover of Mansfield Park.

Affording Jane Austen

October 7, 2019 by Tori Miller

In The Lost Books of Jane Austen, Janine Barchas explores the burgeoning popularity of Jane Austen’s novels beginning in the nineteenth-century. Through photographs and unique historical perspectives, Barchas shares some of the earliest and cheapest reprints of Austen’s work that brought the author recognition in the working-class, leading to the reputation she has today. Learn […]

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Leave No Page Unturned

September 10, 2019 by Michelle Bryant

Fall 2019 books from our college community.

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Drawing Inspiration

August 30, 2019 by Alex Reshanov

Edward Carey’s office is filled with fanciful artwork, including several large drawings of the gloomy-eyed characters who inhabit his books. But the item that immediately catches my eye is a bowl of small, cylindrical objects that at first glance appears to be an ashtray overflowing with cigarette butts. These, it turns out, are pencils, worn […]

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Bring Your Brain to Work

August 2, 2019 by Tori Miller

In Bring Your Brain to Work, Art Markman shares what you need to know to succeed at work. He highlights research from cognitive science that supports strategies to help readers get a job, to succeed at that job once they get it, and to best enhance their career by getting the next job.  You’ve probably heard […]

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Soak in Our Summer Reads

July 9, 2019 by Michelle Bryant

Summer 2019 titles from our college community.

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Books: Spring 2019

June 6, 2019 by Tori Miller

Spring 2019 titles from our college community.

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Books: Winter 2018-19

June 6, 2019 by Tori Miller

Winter 2018-19 titles from our college community.

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Books: Fall 2018

June 4, 2019 by Michelle Bryant

Fall 2018 titles from our college community.

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What’s in Your Library?

April 16, 2019 by Michelle Bryant

Over a period of five years (2013-18) a Faculty Committee on Influential Books discussed, debated and finally compiled a list of intellectually and culturally significant books to encourage reading by undergraduates and provide inspiration for continued reading by college alumni. The committee benefited from student suggestions and criticism in drawing up the list that mainly […]

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A Shoemaker’s Dilemma: Q&A with English Alum and Author Spencer Wise

August 14, 2018 by Katie Lazarowicz

Set in contemporary South China, The Emperor of Shoes is about a young Jewish Bostonian preparing to take over his family’s shoe business. But he ends up falling in love with a factory worker who may or may not be using him as a pawn to start a pro-democratic revolution in the factory. For author […]

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Living in a Material World: Philosopher Galen Strawson tackles a few of life’s nagging questions

July 2, 2018 by Michelle Bryant

Writer and actor Stephen Fry says Galen Strawson “opens windows and finds light-switches like no other philosopher writing today,” and novelist Ian McEwan simply dubs Strawson “one of the cleverest men alive.” High praise for this UT professor of philosophy, who discusses his latest book, Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, The Self, Etc. with Life […]

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Books: Spring & Summer 2018

June 4, 2018 by Michelle Bryant

Spring and Summer 2018 titles from our college community.

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Books: Fall & Winter 2017-18

May 15, 2018 by Michelle Bryant

Fall 2017 and Winter 2017-2018 titles from our college community.

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