# Intellectual Life ## expand\_more [### Taylor’s Version (2025) ](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781668652152/?lens=basic-books) ![Taylor's Version](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/Taylor%27s%20Version.jpg?itok=bDRh2hM5) [### Super Gay Poems (2025) ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674273115) ![Super Gay Poems Stephanie Burt](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/super%20gay%20poems.jpeg?itok=TMY_Qmrk) [### Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (2025) ](https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324050988) ![Fear Less Tracy K Smith](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/fear%20less%20tracy%20k%20smith_0.jpg?itok=T-JpRoAF) [### Picturing Frederick Douglass by John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, Celeste-Marie Bernier, and Epilogue by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ](http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Picturing-Frederick-Douglass/) ![9780871404688_300.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-07/9780871404688_300.jpg?itok=MeeSoO88) [### Pharmakon by Teju Cole (2024) ](https://shop.icp.org/teju-cole-pharmakon.html) description [### Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism, By James Simpson ](https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Revolution-Reformation-Illiberal-Liberalism/dp/0674987136) ![simpson_cover_high_res_01.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-07/simpson_cover_high_res_01.jpeg?itok=64759PxV) [### Patronizing the Arts by Marjorie Garber (2008) ](https://www.amazon.com/Patronizing-Arts-Marjorie-Garber/dp/0691124809) ![51lty-jbgbl._sx329_bo1204203200_.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-07/51lty-jbgbl._sx329_bo1204203200_.jpg?itok=T664hGY0) [### Out of Sri Lanka edited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne and Shash Trevett (2023) ](https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/out-of-sri-lanka-1327) ![out_of_sri_lanka_vidyan_ravinthiran.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-07/out_of_sri_lanka_vidyan_ravinthiran.jpeg?itok=hKTycPPk) [### Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler (2007) ](https://www.amazon.com/Our-Secret-Discipline-Yeats-Lyric/dp/0674026950) ![41nyiabpu2l._sx340_bo1204203200_.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-07/41nyiabpu2l._sx340_bo1204203200_.jpg?itok=nkDUZp30) [### On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry (2001) ](https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Being-Just-Elaine-Scarry/dp/0691089590/) ![41vff3cmm9l._sx308_bo1204203200_.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-07/41vff3cmm9l._sx308_bo1204203200_.jpg?itok=E7htI6zC) [### Old English Literature: A Short Introduction by Daniel Donoghue (2004) ](https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Old+English+Literature%3A+A+Short+Introduction-p-9780631234869) ![51gtrkn8qul._sx331_bo1204203200_.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-07/51gtrkn8qul._sx331_bo1204203200_.jpg?itok=8dBHgU6e) [### O Wheel by Peter Sacks (2000) ](https://www.amazon.com/O-Wheel-Peter-M-Sacks/dp/0820321842) ![51hrgezg9el.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-07/51hrgezg9el.jpg?itok=-dJc34Mn) Show morerefresh [ View All Resources arrow\_circle\_right ](/resources) ## Latest News [### Nadine Knight, PhD '07, Receives Tenure at Holy Cross ](/news/2026/05/nadine-knight-phd-07-receives-tenure-holy-cross) May 15, 2026 We are delighted to share that Nadine Knight, PhD '07, was recently promoted from Associate Professor of Literature to Tenured Professor at the College of the Holy Cross. Congratulations, Nadine! ![Nadine Knight](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Nadine%20Knight_0.jpeg?itok=Y-Cbgqp0) [### Namwali Serpell Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship, Launches Podcast ](/news/2026/05/namwali-serpell-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship-launches-podcast) May 15, 2026 Professor of English Namwali Serpell, who recently received a Guggenheim fellowship, has a podcast launching Thursday, May 21st based on her On Morrison book tour. 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