Filter Sessions:
Resist and Reimagine: Opening Night in Three Acts
Chip Rolley, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Adam Gopnik, Leila Slimani, Colson Whitehead
16 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:45 pm
Sean Penn in conversation with Jon Lee Anderson
Jon Lee Anderson, Sean Penn
17 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:00 pm
Us Too
Maxine Beneba Clarke, Dunya Mikhail, Tishani Doshi, Mona Eltahawy
17 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Poland Spring: Ryszard Krynicki
Clare Cavanagh, Alissa Valles, Ryszard Krynicki, Edward Hirsch
17 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:00 pm
Playing with Fire: Theater in Translation as Resistance
Agnes Walder, Martin Puchner, Jeremy Tiang, Michael Eskin
17 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:15 pm
Literary Quest: Tenement Museum Edition
Jenny Zhang, Esmeralda Santiago, Lauren Hilgers, André Aciman, Penny Arcade, Muna Tseng, Ping Chong, Ibi Zoboi, Akwaeke Emezi
18 Apr 2018
6:30 pm
Beyond Borges: Argentina’s Unsung Literary Greats
Charlotte Whittle, Edwin Frank, Heather Cleary, Sergio Chejfec, Eric M. B. Becker, Esther Allen
18 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Decolonizing the Mind
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Rob Spillman
18 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Resonances
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Bridgett M. Davis, Alicia Kopf, Xiaolu Guo, Aminatta Forna
19 Apr 2018
6:00 pm
Being Dag Solstad
John Freeman, Lydia Davis, Dag Solstad
19 Apr 2018
6:30 pm-7:30 pm
Artists Take the Street!
Tania Bruguera, Amy Khoshbin, A.M. Homes, Carmen Hermo
19 Apr 2018
6:30 pm-7:30 pm
Cry, the Beloved Country
Chip Rolley, Serhiy Zhadan, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Ryszard Krynicki, Hwang Sok-yong, Négar Djavadi, Marcos Aguinis
19 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Translation Slam
Mara Faye Lethem, Michael Moore, Amanda Lee Koe, Maria Cabrera Callís, Mary Ann Newman, Jeremy Tiang, Un Sio San, Bonnie Huie
19 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Cave Canem Presents: New Works with Safia Elhillo, Adrian Matejka, and Ife-Chudeni Oputa
Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa, Safia Elhillo, Adrian Matejka
19 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Dystopian Fiction: Future Present Tense
Ram Devineni, Leni Zumas, Omar El Akkad, Basma Abdel Aziz
19 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:00 pm
One Book, One New York: Authors in Conversation
Jennifer Finney Boylan, Hari Kunzru, Imbolo Mbue, Barry Jenkins, Esmeralda Santiago, Jennifer Egan
19 Apr 2018
7:30 pm-9:00 pm
Meditations on Exile
Dinaw Mengestu , Dunya Mikhail, Xiaolu Guo, Hossein M Abkenar
20 Apr 2018
6:00 pm-7:00 pm
Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like
Marcia Pally, Zetta Elliott, Marion Brasch, Siri Hustvedt
20 Apr 2018
6:00 pm-7:00 pm
Literary Quest: Westbeth Edition
Hadi Nasiri, Demian Vitanza, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Nachoem Wijnberg, Ayşe Kulin, Susan Kuklin, Rupert Thomson, Mariko Tamaki, Leni Zumas, Kanchana Ugbabe, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Alicia Kopf, Ashley Hay, Sharon Bala, Basma Abdel Aziz
20 Apr 2018
6:30 pm-10:00 pm
Borders of our Imagination
Amalia Rojas, Valeria Luiselli, Francisco Cantú
20 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Where Do We Go From Here?
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Jelani Cobb, Gregory Pardlo
20 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Havana with Leonardo Padura
Mark Kurlansky, Leonardo Padura
20 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Unlived Lives
Anderson Tepper, Hwang Sok-yong, Petra Hůlová, Georgi Gospodinov
20 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Kexaptun: Poetry in New York’s Newest and Oldest Languages
Yusra Zaini, Nino Provenzano, Ross Perlin, Karen Mosko, Kewulay Kamara, Zenaida Cantú
20 Apr 2018
7:30 pm-8:30 pm
Blurring Borders: Reimagining Strangers
Rebecca Falkoff, Raquel Abend, Ibi Zoboi, Négar Djavadi
20 Apr 2018
7:30 pm-8:30 pm
Show Me How! A Poetry and Collage Presentation
Charles Waters, Sean Qualls, Irene Latham, Selina Alko
21 Apr 2018
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Storytime: Imagination in Action
Paul Zelinsky, Ying Chang Compestine, Jamia Wilson, Innosanto Nagara
21 Apr 2018
12:30 pm-1:30 pm
Take Back the Net: Fighting Online Hate
Katy Glenn Bass, Anita Sarkeesian, Porochista Khakpour, Yassmin Abdel-Magied
21 Apr 2018
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Translation and the Power(s) of Language
Rubén Ríos-Ávila, Judith Santopietro, Mary Ann Newman, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Alicia Kopf
21 Apr 2018
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Resistance Report Card: Grading the Groundswell
Dale Ho, Suzanne Nossel, Patrisse Cullors, Masha Gessen
21 Apr 2018
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
What Shall We Tell the Children?
Fatima Shaik, Wade Hudson, Innosanto Nagara
21 Apr 2018
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
After the Storm: Puerto Rico, Poetry and Resistance
Denice Frohman, Rich Villar, Julio Marzán, Martín Espada, Peggy Robles-Alvarado
21 Apr 2018
4:00 pm-5:30 pm
The Trick of Translation
Michael Reynolds, Domenico Starnone, Jhumpa Lahiri
21 Apr 2018
5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Comics Carousel: Graphic Novels Come to Life
Mariko Tamaki, Robert Sikoryak, Iasmin Omar Ata, Tony Medina, Pénélope Bagieu
21 Apr 2018
5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Still, They Persisted
Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Ayşe Kulin, Sharon Bala, Marcos Aguinis
21 Apr 2018
5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Fighting Fake News
Peter Barbey, William Kristol, Yamiche Alcindor, Suzanne Nossel
21 Apr 2018
5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Legacy of an LGBTQ Countercultural Icon
Bonnie Huie, Ari Larissa Heinrich, Eileen Myles
21 Apr 2018
7:30 pm-8:30 pm
Theater and Creativity in the Underground
Natalia Kaliada, Jessica Litwak, Varvara Faer, Meriam Bousselmi
21 Apr 2018
7:30 pm-8:30 pm
New York Stories
Colum McCann, Salman Rushdie, Sergio De La Pava, Paul Auster
21 Apr 2018
7:30 pm-9:00 pm
Life During Wartime
Demyan Kudryavtsev, Andrei Khadanovich, Serhiy Zhadan
22 Apr 2018
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Breakout: Voices from the Inside 2018
Demian Vitanza, Robert Pollock, Caits Meissner, Mitchell S. Jackson, Julia Steele Allen, asha bandele, Donna Hylton, Alejo Daw’ud Rodriguez, Raquel Almazan, Liza Jessie Peterson
22 Apr 2018
12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Far from the Front
Anne Summers , Rupert Thomson, Ashley Hay
22 Apr 2018
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
It Can’t Happen Here
Chip Rolley, Max Boot, Masha Gessen, Nancy MacLean, Ian Buruma
22 Apr 2018
3:00 pm-4:30 pm
America, Real and Imagined
Lesley Nneka Arimah, Joy Harjo, Sarah Gerard, Francisco Cantú
22 Apr 2018
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
The Ghost Dictatorship
Sabina Murray, Sheila Coronel, Eric Gamalinda, Gina Apostol
22 Apr 2018
5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Pale Sister (Staged Reading)
Patricia Dailey, Lisa Dwan, Colm Toibin
22 Apr 2018
6:30 pm-8:00 pm
Private Screening: Hillary Rodham Clinton: The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
22 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm