Books They Write – Celebration of Scholarship 2022
Planning to attend the Celebration of Scholarship at New Brunswick Libraries? To be held in Douglass Library on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 from 4 pm to 6 pm, this event … Read More
Judit Hajnal Ward
Banned or Challenged
“Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us” is the theme of Banned Books Week 2022, observed from September 18 to 24 this year. Committed to intellectual freedom, Books We Read joins … Read More
Back to Books We Read
Welcome to the new academic year, whether you are back or here for the first time. Books We Read staff will continue what we do the best: Recommend books to … Read More
Et. In. Arcadia. Ego. – Szilárd Borbély and Intertextual References
Speaking of his poetry in an interview in 2005, Borbély claims that he doesn’t intend to discuss deep philosophical questions in his works. Instead, he works on solving the task … Read More
Szilárd Borbély in English: Kafka’s Son
Circling back to Kafka shows the long-lasting effect of early experiences and influences continually revisited that is discernible in Borbély’s works. One step forward from the practice of “the novel … Read More
How We Read: Perspectives
The Books We Read Blog is conducting a series of interviews with contributors and friends of the blog to get a snapshot of our reading habits: the things we like … Read More
Language is Cruelest of All: Szilárd Borbély in English
When in 2013 Borbély’s first novel The Dispossesed was published in Hungarian, the buzz quickly picked up and demand grew for an English translation. A literary sensation somewhere between memoir … Read More
Author Talks: Summer Tales with Julie Otsuka
Join us for our Summer Tales Author Talk with guest speaker Julie Otsuka as she discusses her award-winning novels and more with a moderator, Nick Allred. The event will be … Read More
How We Read: New Worlds
The Books We Read Blog is conducting a series of interviews with contributors and friends of the blog to get a snapshot of our reading habits: the things we like … Read More
Arms and Muses: Poets from Ukraine
The previous post introduced a volume of Ukrainian poetry entitled Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine published before the 2022 Russia invasion of Ukraine. Who are these poets? Let … Read More