"Germano and Nicholls's gently polemical, deeply romantic book regards the syllabus, and the work that goes into constructing one, as an opportunity to ponder the possibilities and pathways of the classroom. . . . As such, their book is filled with useful insights about teaching and how, under ideal circumstances, what is transferred isn't a body of knowledge but a kind of 'craft, ' a way of reading and taking in the world. . . . The authors of Syllabus come across like fantastic and committed teachers."–-Hua Hsu, New Yorker