December 22, 2020 – Typically, the December meeting of the Council’s board of directors includes a chance to reflect on the year and celebrate the holiday season with colleagues and friends. This year, though we gathered via Zoom, we were reminded once again of the power of the humanities to connect us despite distance and sometimes choppy internet service. Below is a list of what the Council’s board and staff have been reading lately. We wish you all a safe and healthy New Year and look forward to connecting again in 2021.
Reading:
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- Eat a Peach by David Chang
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Mansart Builds a School by W.E.B DuBois
- The Stationary Shop of Tehran by Marjam Kamali
- Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
- Walking with the Wind by John Lewis
- Apeirogon: A Novel by Colum Mccann
- His Truth is Marching On by John Meacham
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- This is the 2021 Reading Across Rhode Island selection and the Humanities Council is a proud sponsor of this statewide intergenerational reading program. We hope you’ll join our colleagues at the RI Center for the Book as they kick off the 2021 RARI season on January 26. Click here for registration information.
- The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson
- The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel by Lisa Wingate
- Humanities Magazine
- Yes! Magazine
- International political perspectives on American politics
- Articles on cultural policy in the US and advances in NAGPRA that may help bring about a cultural reckoning – or not – remains to be seen.
- Stanford Social Innovation Review
