From Round to Square (and back)

For The Emperor's Teacher, scroll down (↓) to "Topics." It's the management book that will rock the world (and break the vase, as you will see). Click or paste the following link for a recent profile of the project: http://magazine.beloit.edu/?story_id=240813&issue_id=240610

A new post appears every day at 12:05* (CDT). There's more, though. Take a look at the right-hand side of the page for over four years of material (2,000 posts and growing) from Seinfeld and country music to every single day of the Chinese lunar calendar...translated. Look here ↓ and explore a little. It will take you all the way down the page...from round to square (and back again).
*Occasionally I will leave a long post up for thirty-six hours, and post a shorter entry at noon the next day.

Friday, January 19, 2018

New York Review of Books Syllabus, Spring 2018

Click here for the introduction to the Round and Square series "Syllabic Cycles"
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On this date in Round and Square History
19 January 2016—Round and Square Syllabus 2016
19 January 2016—China's Lunar Calendar 2016 01-19
19 January 2015—Accidental Ethnographer Syllabus 2015
19 January 2015—China's Lunar Calendar 2015 01-19
19 January 2014—China's Lunar Calendar 2014 01-19
19 January 2013—Channeling Liam: Bike Seat Height
19 January 2012—Prairie Ethnography: The Thousand Ask Question
19 January 2011—Celebrity Commentary Resource Center
[a[ Gates to learning RF

All Classes
Spring 2018
Robert André LaFleur                                                       Office Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 206                                                          Tuesday     3:00-5:00
363-2005                                                                             ...or by appointment              
                                                                                            lafleur@beloit.edu 

We will be reading the January 18, 2018 issue of the New York Review of Books 
this semester. Each week's reading is REQUIRED, and you need to bring your 
own copy of the NYRB to class for each meeting.

Available behind the sales counter at Turtle Creek Bookstore
Just ask; they know all about it 

Week One 
(No class meeting this week)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Read all front matter (cover, inside-cover advertisement, table of contents, contributors).
Skim all back matter (letters, advertisements, even the personals; who is an NYRB reader?)... 

Week Two
(30 January)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading 
Martin Filler. Between Nouveau and Deco, 9-12.

Week Three
(6 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Thomas Powers. The Nuclear Worrier, 13-15.

Week Four 
(13 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Adam Kirsch. Classical Cancan, 16-18.

Week Five  
(20 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Raja Shehadeh. This Land is Our Land, 19-21.

Week Six
(27 February)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Geoffrey Wheatcroft. A Star is Born, 22-23

Week Seven
(6 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Andrew Butterfield. Divine Lust, 27-28.


Week Nine
(20 March)
No reading this week (Exam I)

Week Ten
(27 March)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Emily Wilson. A Doggish Translation, 34-36.
 
Week Eleven
(3 April)

Week Twelve 
(10 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading 
Antony Beevor. The Unmentionable Season of Death, 43-44
 
Week Thirteen
(17 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Alan Ryan. An Anglo-Irish Cicero, 45-47.
 
Week Fourteen
(24 April)
Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Ruth Franklin. The Decisive Moment, 41-42.

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