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ECS 786

The Novel of Now: Or, How Artists Speak Back to States of Civil Violence and War

Graduate

Fall 2025 · The Novel Of Now · C01

Readings

  • Severance: A Novel
    Ma Ling · Required
    ISBN 9781250214997
  • Luster
    Leilani · Required
    ISBN 9780385696029
  • My Year Of Rest And Relaxation
    Moshfegh · Required
    ISBN 9780525522133
  • No One Is Talking About This
    Lockwood · Required
    ISBN 9780593189597
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    Vuong · Required
    ISBN 9780525562047
  • On Freedom : Four Songs Of Care And Constraint
    Nelson , Maggie · Required
    ISBN 9780771051289
  • The Fraud
    Smith , Zadie · Required
    ISBN 9780735235441
Fall 2025

Topics

  • Contemporary novels
  • Economic inequality
  • Political violence
  • Migration
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Ecological crisis

Readings

  • On Freedom
    Maggie Nelson · required
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    Ottessa Moshfegh · required
  • The Fraud
    Zadie Smith · required
  • Luster
    Raven Leilani · required
  • No One Is Talking About This
    Patricia Lockwood · required
  • Severance
    Ling Ma · required
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    Ocean Vuong · required
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