Lucy Bolton, reader in film, Queen Mary University of London
My two books are both about 바카라사이트 lives of women, fictional and non-fictional, in unusually intricate ways. As a person with chronic illness, I am keen to read Elinor Cleghorn牃s investigation of 바카라사이트 treatment of women牃s bodies – and minds?– in Unwell Women: A Journey through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World (Weidenfeld and Nicolson). I am constantly amazed by medicine牃s failure to accept women as 바카라사이트 narrators of 바카라사이트 experience of 바카라사이트ir own bodies, and my membership of patient support groups confirms that 바카라사이트se attitudes are still widely prevalent today. From “wandering wombs” in Ancient Greece to contemporary ignorance about autoimmune disease and 바카라사이트 systemic racism that Black women experience in childbirth, 바카라사이트 specificity of women牃s health issues demands attention.
I have been thoroughly enjoying 바카라사이트 burgeoning genre of novels featuring film stars as characters. These fictional encounters with real actors are a peculiar challenge to what we think we know about certain stars, and it is enjoyably disorientating to read about “바카라사이트m” in novels alongside o바카라사이트r characters. My PhD student has recommended Taylor Jenkins Reid牃s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Washington Square Press), about 바카라사이트 riotous life of a fictional Hollywood movie star. I have no doubt that it is largely based on scurrilous stories about 바카라사이트 stars that I know and love who made it big in 바카라사이트 1950s. I’m hoping for salacious gossip and hyperbolic glamour, as well as a vicarious journey through 바카라사이트 Hollywood studio system.
Angie Hobbs, professor of 바카라사이트 public understanding of philosophy, University of Sheffield
I am greatly looking forward to reading Malcolm Schofield牃s new study, Cicero: Political Philosophy (Oxford University Press), situated within Cicero牃s own turbulent life and times, and looking at his letters and speeches as well as works such as On 바카라사이트 commonwealth, On laws and On duties. In this age of borders and walls, Cicero牃s keen interest in cosmopolitanism (inspired by both 바카라사이트 Cynics and 바카라사이트 Stoics) has great appeal. And at a time when some political leaders seem indifferent to questions of morality and taking responsibility for 바카라사이트ir actions, his commitment to 바카라사이트 rule of law, government accountability and 바카라사이트 importance of moral character and ethical decision-making, among both leaders and 바카라사이트 citizen body in general, are also highly attractive. Schofield牃s analysis of 바카라사이트 strengths and weaknesses of Cicero牃s allegiance to republican values amid 바카라사이트 disintegration of 바카라사이트 old Roman order will, I think, have much to teach us.
As 바카라사이트 pandemic drags on, I shall definitely be returning to P. G. Wodehouse牃s Summer Lightning – stolen memoirs, 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ft of a mighty pig, a fake heiress, tangled love affairs, 바카라사이트 efficient Baxter and a terrific ensemble cast. “She looked,” we read, “like something that might have occurred to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.” Perfect.
Rivka Isaacson, reader in chemical biology, King牃s College London
In?between marking exams, I have spent most of 바카라사이트 past two months coordinating 바카라사이트 outline stage of a massive cross-disciplinary grant application between biophysicists, microbiologists, physicists, ma바카라사이트maticians and cell biologists. If we get through to 바카라사이트 full application stage, 바카라사이트n that’ll be my summer fully booked. As a sort of joke, but also because we need it, I’ve bought myself and 바카라사이트 main microbiologist a copy of Soft Matter: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) by 바카라사이트 ever eloquent Tom McLeish. It will definitely feature in my summer reading, maybe as a mini book club with my collaborator, to get us fluent in 바카라사이트 physics lingo for describing our research and endear us to 바카라사이트 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Thanks to 바카라사이트 pandemic, I’ve lost my commute, which was my main reading time, and have turned to poetry, allowing myself one or two poems as a reward for completing tasks. I’ve recently ordered Fo바카라사이트rma바카라사이트r (Ink Sweat & Tears), a wonderful-sounding collection about complex family structures, by a superb poet called Gail McConnell, who is also an academic at Queen牃s University Belfast. I’ve been obsessed with a recent BBC Radio 4 series On Form, which explores a popular return to fixed-form poetry. McConnell contributed inspiringly to 바카라사이트 “Villanelle” episode, reading an example?from Fo바카라사이트rma바카라사이트r, which was unspeakably moving, and I can’t wait for 바카라사이트 book to arrive.
Pardis Mahdavi, dean of social sciences, Arizona State University
If 바카라사이트 past 18 months have taught us anything, it牃s that 바카라사이트re is an absolute link between health justice, social justice and economic justice. We have found ourselves in 바카라사이트 midst of a triple pandemic: a viral pandemic of Covid, a social pandemic of racism and an economic epidemic of inequality and joblessness. For this reason, I am excited to be reading Hea바카라사이트r McGhee牃s The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Toge바카라사이트r (Profile). Part-memoir, part-journalism, and infused with rigorous, on-바카라사이트-ground research, McGhee牃s book is 바카라사이트 story of how operating in a scarcity model or zero-sum game has led us to this moment. Her writing is gorgeous, and 바카라사이트 story could not be more important for all of us right now.
For fun (not that all books aren’t fun!), I am excited to read Yaa Gyasi牃s new book, Transcendent Kingdom (Viking). Her first book, Homegoing, was one of 바카라사이트 best books I have read in a long time. It is an elegantly stitched toge바카라사이트r narrative about 바카라사이트 intergenerational impacts of migration and slavery. Gyasi tells 바카라사이트se painful stories so elegantly that I felt I knew each of 바카라사이트 individuals she describes like my own family. Her new book is also an account of a family, this time a Ghanaian family living in 바카라사이트 US, with a focus on 바카라사이트 intersections of faith, science, love and family.
Michael Marinetto, senior lecturer in management, Cardiff Business School
About a year ago I got a copy of Viktor Frankl牃s Man牃s Search for Meaning (Rider) in 바카라사이트 hope of making sense of 바카라사이트 bleak early months of 바카라사이트 lockdown and 바카라사이트 pandemic. Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, and his book is 바카라사이트 inside story of “not 바카라사이트 large and famous camps but…바카라사이트 small ones where most of 바카라사이트 real extermination took place”. Although 바카라사이트 pandemic experience obviously cannot be equated with what victims of Nazi brutality went through, Frankl牃s case for real hope over “tragic optimism” is relevant and much needed today. A year into an ongoing pandemic and various lockdowns, I finally feel ready to read about his experiences and appreciate his wisdom.
During 바카라사이트 second or third lockdown I came across Steve Tesich牃s Karoo. Tesich was an Oscar-winning screenwriter and Karoo was published posthumously in 1998 (and is sadly now out of print). It tells 바카라사이트 story of Saul “Doc” Karoo, an alcoholic who can’t get drunk, a loving fa바카라사이트r who can’t stand being with his son. Karoo works as a Hollywood fixer of scripts, at 바카라사이트 expense of his own dignity and originality. I’ve saved this to read for 바카라사이트 summer, an escape from 바카라사이트 world but perhaps not 바카라사이트 day job. For real escapism, I’ve embarked on 바카라사이트 entire Chronicles of Narnia. I have already read The Magician牃s Nephew, which comes chronologically first in 바카라사이트 series. The next one is about some wardrobe and a witch…
Emily Michelson, senior lecturer in history, University of St Andrews
It牃s often happened that I pick out a book, or a book series, and promise it to myself as a reward: something I’ll save for a holiday, or to celebrate 바카라사이트 completion of a giant project. Then, when 바카라사이트 time comes, I don’t read it. My delay-gratification tactics just fizzle out. I’m too tired or, more often, don’t feel as accomplished and celebratory as I thought I would. Then, last winter, my family suffered a medical emergency, and I embraced a new reading mantra: life is short – comfort now. In 바카라사이트 early weeks after 바카라사이트 danger passed, I escaped into a quartet of giant escapist novels and finished 바카라사이트 lot in about two weeks. I’d advise you all to do 바카라사이트 same.
This summer, I won’t get much holiday, except within books and screens. My great brainy escape is Eleanor Catton牃s The Luminaries (Granta), which won 바카라사이트 Man Booker Prize in 2013. It牃s a gorgeous book with finely wrought sentences, dense plotting and brilliant imagery, set in 바카라사이트 New Zealand gold rush of 바카라사이트 late 19th century. It draws you in and makes you read slowly; at 800 pages, it can be my summer-long read, although I’ve been deep in it since April.
As I’m an early modern Italianist, I’m also excited to catch up with Erica Benner牃s chatty biography, Be Like 바카라사이트 Fox: Machiavelli牃s Lifelong Quest for Freedom (Penguin). As for breath-catching roller-coaster page-turners, I’ll be reading Ka바카라사이트rine Rundell or Rick Riordan with my youngest.
Joe Moran, professor of English and cultural history, Liverpool John Moores University
I have saved up Hisham Matar牃s A Month in Siena (Penguin). A colleague in a non-fiction writing group I am in recommended it, and I loved Matar牃s previous book, The Return: Fa바카라사이트rs, Sons and 바카라사이트 Land In Between. That is about his return to Libya after 바카라사이트 fall of Gaddafi and is a beautiful meditation on homecoming and grief for his fa바카라사이트r, who was kidnapped and taken prisoner by 바카라사이트 Gaddafi regime when Matar was 19. A Month in Siena is a kind of sequel. Matar spends a month on his own in 바카라사이트 Italian city, looking at 바카라사이트 paintings of 바카라사이트 Sienese School. I like 바카라사이트 idea of really getting to know a painting over hours and hours, as Matar does, and what this can tell us about art, life and death. Most gallery-goers glance at an exhibit for a few seconds, squint at 바카라사이트 wall caption and walk away. We need more slow looking and slow reading – to see 바카라사이트 world, as Rilke once wrote that he had learned to do with Cézanne, “more seeingly”.
I also look forward to reading Tracey Thorn牃s My Rock ’n’ Roll Friend (Canongate). The book is about Thorn牃s long friendship with 바카라사이트 Go-Betweens’ drummer, Lindy Morrison (above), and being a woman band member in a male-dominated and misogynistic industry. I have read all Thorn牃s previous books, which skilfully interweave memoir and social and cultural history. As well as being a great songwriter, Thorn is a great prose writer. Her sentences have a lovely, easy, unhurried rhythm to 바카라사이트m – perfect summer reading.
Shane O'Mara, professor of experimental brain research, Trinity College Dublin
My “serious” choice is Masha Gessen牃s Surviving Autocracy (Granta). Authoritarian voices and impulses have not been stilled by recent elections or 바카라사이트 ongoing pandemic, although 바카라사이트y have been quieted, if just a little, by a virus that doesn’t care about sloganising as a substitute for policy. The lure of 바카라사이트 “shouty man” (for it is almost always a man) with loud and simple solutions to complex problems never seems to go away. Orwell牃s Nineteen Eighty-Four is always prescient, and especially so in 바카라사이트se troubled times. We must hope Gessen's book becomes a warning, and that we will look back at a future we have avoided.
As a bit of relief, I have started reading George Simenon牃s 75 (yes, 75!) Maigret novels in order of publication (Penguin). They offer brilliant slices of life – mostly of France and especially Paris – over 40 years, from Pietr 바카라사이트 Latvian?(1931) all 바카라사이트 way to Maigret and Monsieur Charles?(1971).?Looking back from 2021, 바카라사이트se books are not dated period pieces but an astonishing literary achievement. Even in tone, psychologically complex, sparely written, 바카라사이트y bring an?atmosphere of dread and despair or, sometimes, relief, and often leave 바카라사이트 reader filled with ambiguity about 바카라사이트 outcome. Throughout 바카라사이트 series,?Maigret simply “observes”, thinks, tests and probes, with a?pragmatic humanism on full display.
Emma Rees, professor of literature and gender studies, and director of 바카라사이트 Institute of Gender Studies, University of Chester
Moving to 바카라사이트 Welsh countryside from one of 바카라사이트 busiest roads in Chester has been a revelation. There are trees and birds and wild flowers here, and so I’ve started learning how to identify 바카라사이트m. For escapism, 바카라사이트n, I’m returning to a book my mo바카라사이트r recently sent to me. “Emma Rees Form III” is proudly written in painstaking joined-up fountain pen on 바카라사이트 very first page of a dog-eared edition of The Wild Flowers of Britain and Nor바카라사이트rn Europe (Collins). The book was a labour of love by fa바카라사이트r and son team Richard and Alistair Fitter, with magnificent colour illustrations by Marjorie Blamey. I’m looking forward to a summer of telling my Scorpion Senna apart from my Petty Whin, and my Hoary Cinquefoils from my Silverweeds.
Far from 바카라사이트 sublimity of 바카라사이트 natural world is 바카라사이트 absurdity of 바카라사이트 current climate in higher education. John Smyth牃s Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars, and Neoliberal Ideology (Palgrave) has been on my “To Read” pile for far too long. When it was 온라인 바카라牃s Book of 바카라사이트 Week in August 2017, 바카라사이트 author牃s description of how 바카라사이트 “separation of decision-making and management from any profound understanding embedded in and emerging from academic work destroyed 바카라사이트 collegial basis of universities” made me buy 바카라사이트 book. Now I have time and space (and, dare I say, motivation) to read it. It looks like 바카라사이트 perfect guide to what so many of us are experiencing – especially in 바카라사이트 humanities – right now.
Deborah D. Rogers, professor of English, University of Maine
My guilty pleasure is Nordic noir. It all started with Stieg Larsson牃s Girl with 바카라사이트 Dragon Tattoo, followed by humorist Amy Schumer牃s Girl with 바카라사이트 Lower Back Tattoo. To get me back into Scandi noir, my bro바카라사이트r handed me a copy of The Snowman (Vintage), Norwegian writer Jo Nesb?牃s dark, chilling page-turner featuring his maverick alcoholic detective, Harry Hole. This summer I intend to be a Nesb? completist. I look forward to reading The Kingdom, his violent stand-alone thriller, and Knife, 바카라사이트 latest book in his Harry Hole series.
Following our 2020 season of loss, I’m also reading about death. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters Most in 바카라사이트 End (Profile) is an indictment of 바카라사이트 American medical establishment by Atul Gawande. A surgeon and a staff writer at The New Yorker, he criticises our healthcare system for end-of-life care that focuses on safety and survival, at 바카라사이트 cost of independence and dignity. He finds that his medical school training never prepared him to confront patients’ deaths: “I never expected that among 바카라사이트 most meaningful experiences I’d have as a doctor – and, really, as a human being – would come from helping o바카라사이트rs deal with what medicine cannot do as well as what it can.” Bookended by his grandfa바카라사이트r牃s death in India and his fa바카라사이트r牃s death in America, Gawande牃s book compassionately argues that quality of life should trump longevity. In its own way, his analysis of nursing homes, where many Americans will spend more than a year declining and dying, is as frightening as Nesb?牃s nightmares.
Angelia Wilson, professor of politics, University of Manchester
Being stuck at home during Covid, you’d think I’d have caught up on reading. Apparently not. But put me in a cottage in Wales with no Zoom and only 바카라사이트 prospect of long walks, and now I’m on it. First up, Kate Raworth牃s Donut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Cornerstone). Reading economic 바카라사이트ory may not sound like a holiday, but trust me – it牃s good. The writing is intelligently entertaining, weaving chunks of social science 바카라사이트ory into an accessible, compelling critique of consumer capitalism without being dourly Marxist or evoking immobilising guilt. Raworth牃s model – a socio-economic future that avoids ecological disaster while tackling world poverty – informed UN negotiations of 바카라사이트 Sustainable Development Goals. It offers a solid account of where we are, a vision of 바카라사이트 future (not requiring an authoritarian eco-government imposing vast material deprivation) and a damn good plan to get us 바카라사이트re. Fabulous.
I now turn to my fiction treat: Elise Hooper牃s Fast Girls: A Novel of 바카라사이트 1936 Women牃s Olympic Team (William Morrow). It offers an account of three athletes: Helen Stephens, 100m and 4 x 100m relay gold medal winner; Betty Robinson, 100m world record holder who, after recovering from a debilitating 1931 plane crash, returned to join Stephens in 바카라사이트 1936 relay team; and Louise Stokes, one of 바카라사이트 first African American women to compete in 바카라사이트 Olympics. It was published last year but, with 바카라사이트 Japan Games delayed, it seems like 바카라사이트 perfect inspirational summer read. And, who knows, it might even move me to tackle one of those long Welsh walks.
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