What Wellesley's Reading

Nadya Hajj reads from Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, by Natalie Goldberg, published by Shambhala in ... Read more

Lisa Rodensky reads from Middlemarch by George Eliot, published by Oxford University Press."She locked herself in her ro... Read more

Margery Lucas reads from Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux."...people w... Read more

Jill Syverson-Stork reads from Don Quixote, by Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman, published by Harper Collins."Her... Read more

Eugene Marshall reads from Spinoza's Ethics, translated by Edwin Curley, published by Penguin Classics."I shall consider... Read more

Barry Lydgate reads from Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Dav... Read more

Larry Rosenwald reads an excerpt from Moby Dick by Herman Melville. (5:30)

Tucker Crum reads selections from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, published by Crown."As her dau... Read more

Adele Wolfson reads an excerpt from Einstein's God: Conversation About Science and the Human Spirit by Krista Tippett, p... Read more

Kate Brogan reads an excerpt from The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht, published by Random House."Much of the novel describes... Read more

Michael Jeffries reads from How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, by Kiese Laymon, published by Agate Bolde... Read more

Ed Silver reads an excerpt from Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux."My mother's fathe... Read more

Kathryn Lynch reads an excerpt from Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham, published by Basic Boo... Read more

Marilyn Sides reads from Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Unset, translated by Tiina Nunnally, published by Penguin."She... Read more

Marcy Thomas reads from The Secret Language of Color by Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut, published by Black Dog & ... Read more

Tim Peltason reads from All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, published by Harcourt Brace." 'But suppose I don't fin... Read more

David Ward reads from The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver and published by Harcourt-Brace.... Read more

Tom Hodge reads an excerpt from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude and published by W.W... Read more

Jens Kruse reads from The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, translated by Joachim Neugroschel, published by Simon and Schust... Read more

Lee Cuba reads an excerpt from Women and the City: Gender, Power, and Space in Boston, 1870-1940 by Sarah Deutsch, publi... Read more