The Purloined Letter book club reads and discusses drama, poetry, prose, and theory at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. All are welcome!
- 26 September 2018: Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
- 4 July 2018: Alice Munro, “Royal Beatings”
- 23 May 2018: Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism
- 25 April 2018: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
- 28 March 2018: Alan Sinfield, Selection from Cultural Politics – Queer Reading
- 28 February 2018: Anders Lustgarten, A Day at the Racists
- 31 January 2018: Philip Roth, “Defender of the Faith”
- 13 December 2017: Jean-Jaques Lecercle, Chapter from The Violence of Language
- 25 October 2017: Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
- 27 September 2017: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Introduction to Epistemology of the Closet
- 5 June 2017: Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology
- 21 April 2017: Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Kings of War
- 31 March 2017: Henry James, “The Beast in the Jungle”
- 24 February 2017: Shoshana Felman, Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight
- 26 January 2017: Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
- 23 December 2016: Susan B. Brill, Wittgenstein and Critical Theory.
- 1 December 2016: Henry James, What Maisie Knew
- 28 October 2016: Shoshana Felman, The Scandal of the Speaking Body
- 30 September 2016: Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
- 27 May 2016: Percival Everett, Erasure
- 15 April 2016: William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
- 3 February 2016: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- 16 December 2015: Jonathan Franzen, Purity
- 22 October 2015: Selection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe
- 11 September 2015: Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams, S.
- 8 July 2015: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
- 10 June 2015: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- 22 April 2015: Bret Easten Ellis, Less Than Zero
- 18 February 2015: Cormac McCarthy, The Road
