This novel captures a historical culture in a unique way. When I first opened this novel I was immersed in the world of 1930s Germany. The story line follows an Englishman living in Berlin just as Hitler rose to power. Throughout the novel there are many twists and turns that shock and engage the reader.…

In honor of the new movie coming out, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, I couldn’t help but make Harry Potter my book recommendation for everyone. It is a series that never gets old and it’s a book I always seem to pick up, especially during the summer when I have nothing else to do.…

“As the end of senior year approaches (…I’m not counting or anything), I was reminded of a book that I have grown up reading called “The Little Prince.” It is a story that can take on many meanings and themes, but one that I feel is fitting for us seniors is to not let go of your childhood, as well as the theme of friendships and how they are one of the most important relationships you can have.…

Looking for literary love? The OWU English Department has you covered. Blind Date With a Book is an annual Spring semester event for bookworms of any majors. It is coordinated by the English Department Student Board and Beeghly Library and is in its second year. Books beloved by students and English faculty are pulled from the library stacks, wrapped up like gifts and placed around the library’s Bayley Room with notecards of description on them.…

Looking for literary love? The OWU English Department has you covered. Blind Date With a Book is an annual Spring semester event for bookworms of any majors. It is coordinated by the English Department Student Board and Beeghly Library and is in its second year. Books beloved by students and English faculty are pulled from the library stacks, wrapped up like gifts and placed around the library’s Bayley Room with notecards of description on them.…

Recommended by Madison Williams.

A Separate Peace by John Knowles follows Gene Forrester, a 16 year old boy attending a prestigious boarding school during World War II. The novel details his close friendship with fellow boarder Finny. Their friendship quickly evolves from mutual admiration to intense rivalry culminating in a shocking event that explores the idea of moral ambiguity.…

To celebrate Black History Month, Dr. Nancy Comorau (the resident postcolonial specialist of Sturges) teamed up with Kirsten Whitford and Carrie Kubicki (the resident Instagram gurus of Sturges) to share a book by a Black author every few days.

Books ranged from plays by Afro-Carribian British actors to volumes of poetry about being a Jamaican woman in the US to nonfiction works by journalists investigating the Black Lives Matter movement.…

When I entered my Modern British Literature course with Dr. Hipsky, I was expecting to read works that were written with the express purpose of being different for the sake of being different. After all, the “Modernism” era had a good bit to do with breaking away from traditionally accepted styles. …

Recommended by Madina Sargand

I wanted to read this summer and I love fiction, so when I got an email from Dr. Livingston with a list of recommended books and saw the title The Box Man, I knew this book would be really interesting. The Box Man is a story about a protagonist who quits his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a cardboard box: he wants to become a box man.…

Recommended by Emily Shpiece

The play is a retelling of Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly in which a French ambassador, Rene Gallimard, falls in love with opera star Song Liling. They meet after Gallimard sees Liling portray the title role in Puccini’s opera and, inspired by his womanizing friend, Gallimard begins to test the limits of Liling’s confidence and pride believing that she, a Chinese woman, will eventually bend to his domineering Western position.…