Page Turners

The urgent, hallucinatory lyricism of Mira Corpora, the new novel by playwright Jeff Jackson ’93, prompted author Don DeLillo to call it “present tense with a vengeance” for “serious readers out there waiting for this kind of fiction to hit them in the face.”

 

 

 

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Mazzetti ’96, national-security correspondent for The New York Times, exposes the tactics and dangers of how America now wages war in The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth.

 

 

 

Duke’s founding director of women’s studies and professor emerita Jean O’Barr has compiled Transforming Knowledge, a series of talks she made between 1976 and 2011 on the evolution of women’s studies.

 

 

 

Trustee Paul Farmer ’82, cofounder of Partners in Health, offers a new generation of students guidance and inspiration on how To Repair the World through his collection of speeches and presentations.

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