Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel Audition asks who we are to the people we love. In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our […]
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been canceled.
UCLA Department of English presents a talk by W. J. T. Mitchell, “The Academy in a State of Siege: Pictures of an Institution.” Register here to attend. Since there is […]
“Literary Value from a Socio-Institutional Perspective.”
UCLA English faculty, graduate students, and staff are invited to attend our Welcome Week Reception, honoring visiting prospective English graduate students.
Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Kiran Desai Kiran Desai will discuss her writing. This event is followed […]
Kiran Desai’s newest novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, is a spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love […]