Past Programs
- Illiberal America: Steven Hahn with Linda GordonMarch 19, 2024 - 6:00pmFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, a new book on the powerful illiberalism as deep-seated in the American past as the founding idealsRead More ›
- Double Click: Carol Kino with Gilbert KingMarch 13, 2024 - 6:00pmFrom the renowned art journalist, a dual biography of identical twin sisters who became groundbreaking fashion photographers in 1940s New York CityRead More ›
- The Extinction of Irena Rey: Jennifer Croft with Daniel Saldaña ParísMarch 5, 2024 - 6:00pmFrom the International Booker Prize–winning translator, a debut novel about eight translators searching for their vanished author in a primeval forestRead More ›
- Carson McCullers: Mary Dearborn with Bill GoldsteinFebruary 27, 2024 - 6:00pmThe first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journalsRead More ›
- Spectral Evidence: Gregory Pardlo with Imani PerryJanuary 30, 2024 - 6:00pmA powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of lawRead More ›
- The Rebel’s Clinic: Adam Shatz with Brent Hayes EdwardsJanuary 23, 2024 - 6:00pmA biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for social and racial justiceRead More ›
- Ayana Mathis and Justin TorresOctober 17, 2023 - 6:00pmAward-winning authors Ayana Mathis and Justin Torres speak about their new novels.Read More ›
- My Hijacking: Martha Hodes with Stacy SchiffSeptember 20, 2023 - 6:00pmA historian examines her childhood memories of being on a hijacked airliner in 1970.Read More ›
- Mott Street: Ava Chin with Maya JasanoffMay 16, 2023 - 6:00pmA narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act told through four generations of one family.Read More ›
- Fatherland: Burkhard Bilger with Raffi KhatchadourianMay 2, 2023 - 6:00pmThe New Yorker staff writer recounts his ten-year quest to uncover his family’s hidden Nazi past. Read More ›
- Morgenthau: Andrew Meier with Ginia BellafanteApril 18, 2023 - 6:00pmThe journalist and biographer discusses his portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence on the American Century.Read More ›
- Homestead: Melinda Moustakis with Danielle EvansFebruary 28, 2023 - 6:00pmNational Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree Melinda Moustakis discusses her novel about the turbulent marriage of two homesteaders in 1950s Alaska.Read More ›
- Inventing the It Girl: Hilary A. Hallett with Alice Kessler-HarrisFebruary 14, 2023 - 6:00pmThis Valentine’s Day, discover the story behind the modern romance novel and its connection to the life of celebrity author Elinor Glyn.Read More ›
- The End of Drum-Time: Hanna Pylväinen with Julia PhillipsJanuary 24, 2023 - 6:00pmThe Whiting Award–winning author discusses her new novel, an epic love story set in the 19th-century Arctic Circle.Read More ›
- Stay True: Hua Hsu with Ken ChenNovember 15, 2022 - 6:00pmNew Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu talks about his new memoir, a story of intense friendship, senseless violence, and solace through art.Read More ›
- George Balanchine’s 20th Century: Jennifer Homans with Claudia Roth PierpontNovember 2, 2022 - 6:00pmGeorge Balanchine’s 20th Century: Jennifer Homans with Claudia Roth Pierpont Read More ›
- Picasso’s War: Hugh Eakin with Maxwell AndersonOctober 18, 2022 - 6:00pmPablo Picasso, Paris and New York, obsession, and modern art. The distinguished journalist Hugh Eakin talks about his new book. Read More ›
- Reimagining the Ramayana: Vivek Narayanan with Vijay SeshadriOctober 11, 2022 - 6:00pmThe distinguished poet discusses his new poetry collection inspired by the epic poem, the Ramayana.Read More ›
- Time Shelter: Georgi Gospodinov with Valentina IzmirlievaSeptember 7, 2022 - 6:00pmThe award-winning Bulgarian writer discusses his novel about memory loss, time, and what happens when the past and present collide.Read More ›
- “The Future of American Democracy”: The Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures, delivered by Jamelle Bouie, Part IIJune 22, 2022 - 6:00pmJamelle Bouie will deliver the Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization and Government in two parts: Part I on June 21, Part II on June 22. This biennial lecture series at The New York Public Library, established by the estate of the historian Eric F. Goldman in honor of Read More ›
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