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Acta’s Higher Ed Now Podcast Featuring David Bruce Smith & Michael Poliakoff

Book of the Week for February 27, 2017

Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

Scout comes of age, and so do her prejudices.

Book of the Week for February 20, 2017

The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz

Acerbic humor from the 1970s and 1980s by the author of Social Studies and Metropolitan Life.

Book of the Week for February 13, 2017

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A gaggle of literati moves to 1920s Paris.

Jewish Literature Live Presents Elizabeth Poliner

George Washington University’s Department of English and Jewish Literature Live proudly present a reading by Elizabeth Poliner on Thursday, February...

Book of the Week for January 31, 2017

Quartet In Autumn by Barbara Pym

A story of how four older people—connected only casually— manage their isolation.

Book of the Week for January 29, 2017

The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain

A posthumously discovered mystery by the author of Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Book of the Week for January 23, 2017

The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Difficulties and desolation on the prairie.

Jewish Literature Live Presents A Reading By Ariel Sabar

The George Washington University Department of English and Jewish Literature Live (JLL) proudly present a reading by Ariel Sabar on...

Book of the Week for January 16, 2017

jay’s Journal by Anonymous

An intelligent, popular high school student falls in with a gaggle of bad kids, drugs, and the occult.

Jewish Literature Live 2017 Schedule Announced

The George Washington University Department of English and Jewish Literature Live proudly announce the 2017 schedule. Ariel Sabar My Father’s...

Book of the Week for January 09, 2017

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski

An abandoned boy wanders through dangerous World War II Europe–and survives.