Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Katie Kitamura Katie Kitamura will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Katie Kitamura at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to […]
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 understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think […]
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 no doubt that the academy is in a state of siege at the present time, it seems like a good moment to reflect on the […]
“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 by Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open […]
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 and family, India and America, tradition and modernity. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a love story, a family saga, […]