Defense of a Particular Canon: Websites

You can explore required reading for English courses by selecting English under "filter by field."

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Part of Columbia's core curriculum. Includes links to a list of required texts as well as a syllabus.

A list of 100 new classics (published since 2000) as voted on by a panel of authors, editors, and critics. A good resource if you'd like to explore contemporary works!

Portion of an interview with literary critic and canon "purist" Harold Bloom on what he calls the "School of Resentment": those who call for changes based on social and political context.

Article in the Washington Post by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen arguing that works "by immigrants, foreigners and minorities don’t diminish the ‘classic’ curriculum. They enhance it."

Column by then-Yale senior Adriana Miele from 2016 outlining the concerns of fellow students over what they were assigned to read.

Slate writer Katy Waldman in response to the opposition raised by the Yale students.

Aggregator of book reviews across the Internet.