Resources
We invite you to browse the Consortium’s collection of resources on articles, books and movies, as well as the discussion guides designed to spark discussion among students and others.
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
By: Andrew Solomon (New York: Scribner, 2012)
Summary:
Tolstoy famously began Anna Karenina by saying, ...
Midnight in Paris
Directed by: Woody Allen
The question has been around for centuries: of all the times in human history, ...
Black Mass
Directed by: Scott Cooper
The much anticipated crime picture, Black Mass, has been a mild hit for the ...
Gravity
Warner Bros. Pictures, 2013; Directed by Alfonso Cuarón; Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney; ...
Trumbo
Directed by: Jay Roach
Trumbo is that rare movie that shows a truly great, truly versatile actor at his ...
Ender’s Game
By: Orson Scott Card (New York: Tor Books, 1985)
Summary:
Ender Wiggin is a “Third,” a child born to a ...
Les Misérables
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Very few people I know in the English speaking West know nothing of Les Misérables, ...
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, trans. Thomas P. Whitney & Harry Willets (New York: Harper Perennial Modern ...
Inside Out
Directed by: Pete Docter
Latest in the Pixar pantheon of kid’s movies made for adults, Inside Out takes a ...
All Talk?
Rice, Condoleeza, “This moment cries out for us to confront race in America”, Opinions, Washington Post (June 4, ...
No God or Too Many Gods?
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics By: Ross Douthat (Free Press, 2013)
Richard Dawkins and ...