5 Books & Plays That Take You Deep Inside The Ivory Tower

5 Books & Plays That Take You Deep Inside The Ivory Tower

While screenwriter Nora Garrett’s debut film, After the Hunt, unfolds on Yale’s campus — and is deeply steeped in the school’s milieu — its inspiration came from somewhere far less glamorous: a continuing education Zoom class. “During the pandemic, I took a couple of ad hoc philosophy courses from the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research on Hannah Arendt, Kierkegaard, Nietszche, and [the] Stoics,” Garrett tells Bustle. At the time, Garrett wasn…