Class 12: November 19th (recovery class). Zadie Smith’s Monsters (Room 230)

Monsters BY ZADIE SMITH 2011_09_12 “Suddenly summoned to witness some thing great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness,” wrote John Updike ten years ago in these pages. He watched the towers fall with “the false intimacy of television,” from a tenth-floor apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Over in North …