Crossing borders, bridging divides
Using novels and readings from all over the world, an Arts & Sciences course teaches students to look at the stories that exist on both sides of a geopolitical line.
‘Mother’ lode
Katya Apekina’s “Mother Doll” takes on the spirit world, the Russian Revolution, a surprise pregnancy and personal upheaval — and it’s hilarious.
Between Friends & Lovers
Dr Jojo has it all figured out. Or so it seems to her Instagram followers, who love her no-nonsense advice about men, self-love, dating and sex.But behind the camera, it’s a different story — she’s in love with her best friend, Ezra, and he doesn’t feel the same way. Committed to moving on, Jo soon […]
The Winner
A novel
The latest novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’06, The Winner is a dark, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite.
Winner’s circle
A new acclaimed novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’07, explores class mobility, moral choices and love in the time of COVID.
God Bless the Child
When we first meet Mary Kline in God Bless the Child, Book One of The Women of Paradise County series, she is sewing, her main obsession besides eating. It is hard to blame Mary for who she has become. She’s been perpetually hungry since childhood, and as she becomes a woman, she craves something far more delicious—a child of her own.
The Second Coming
A novel
Soaring, aching, full of revelation, “The Second Coming” by Garth Risk Hallberg (BA ’01) is an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: Can the people we love ever really change?
Mother Doll
A Novel
Ferociously funny and deeply moving, “Mother Doll,” the second novel from Katya Apekina,
MFA ’11, forces us to look at how painful secrets stamp themselves from one generation to the next. It’s a family epic and a meditation on motherhood, immigration, identity, and war.
The Emperor
(The French List)
A tragicomic novel that explores deep-seated tensions and social violence in Haiti.
Parvulescu wins $1.2M European Union grant
Anca Parvulescu, the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor in Comparative Literature and a professor of English, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will serve as principal investigator for a $1.2 million grant exploring the history of comparatism and the origins of the comparative method.
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