New Yorkers: If you’re not already enrolled in an institution of higher learning (or even if you are) we encourage you to check out the course listings on offer from the Brooklyn Institute. The Institute was started in 2011 as a way of taking liberal arts courses out of the classroom—many of their seminars are conducted in the back room of a Boerum Hill restaurant—and span subjects from Spinoza to Freud to realism in literature. This Fall, they’re offering classes on the history, theory, and literature of zombies (“‘Zombi’ and the Politics of Representation”), a survey on the role of the female body across politics, history, and literature (“Writing on the Body”), and another on Kafka, Benjamin, and Max Brod. Podcasts and videos of previous classes are available on their website.