Common Reading: The Prophets

Vassar College
Common Reading: The Prophets
Common reading: Exit West
[Because of the Covid pandemic, there was no Starr lecture this year.]
Common Reading: Guantánamo Diary, by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
edited by Larry Siems
Common Reading: Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Common Reading:
Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
Common Reading:
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Common Reading:
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Common Reading: Shalimar the Clown
In 2005, the Vassar First Year (through the Campus Life and Diversity Office) collaborated with the Dean of First Year Students and the First Year Reading Seminar to institutionalize the Common Reading in connection with The Starr Lecture, beginning with Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown.