The “What We’re Reading” articles feature a curated selection of links to recent publications that have been discussed in the Pittsburgh Review of Books’ Public Humanities Course in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
Students for the fall 2026 semester’s cohort include undergraduates Allison Blair, Riona Duncan, Stephen Makin, Bria Massey, Hailey Price, Violet Shields, and Casandra Skebeck, as well as graduate students Jamari Bass, Alex Johnson, Saty Mukherjee, Elliot Polikowski, Morgan Tarr, and Isabel Weaver.