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Book That Changed My Mind
October 21, 2014
Stephanie LaCava
Walter Benjamin Was My First Crush
August 27, 2014
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
I Hated English Class, Until We Read Nabokov
The novelist taught me how to leave room for magic
July 28, 2014
Uzodinma Iweala
A Book By Jimmy Carter Led Me to Work for Richard Branson
'Talking Peace' provided a perspective on leadership as a combination of stubbornness, a moral compass, and an appetite for risk
July 14, 2014
Adelle Waldman
Middlemarch Showed Me How to Live
My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. In Arizona, I met a man; and I read Middlemarch.

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