New Commons Project programming for January 2022 focuses on Marjane Satrapi's landmark graphic novel about growing up during the Iranian Revolution of the 1970s, Persepolis.

Emily Dickinson's foundational body of poetic works will be the focus of New Commons Project events in February 2022.

Helen and Scott Nearing's key work of the American back-to-the-land movement, Living the Good Life: How to Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World (1954), will be the focus of New Commons Project events in March 2022.

The New Commons Project will complete its cycle of programming on a delicious note in April 2022 with an exploration of Fannie Merritt Farmer's culinary classic, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896).