DREAMing Out Loud: A Public Reading
From Mexico to Nigeria, Kazakhstan to Honduras, Brazil to Jamaica, South Africa to Bangladesh, and beyond, our DREAMers will share stories of journeys toward hope,... Read More
Greek Lessons: Han Kang in Conversation with Katie Kitamura
Han Kang’s Booker Prize-winning 2016 novel The Vegetarian solidified her place as a master of the surreal, and is a powerful reminder that what makes... Read More
Women Talking: Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews
In the film adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel Women Talking, director Sarah Polley paints an intimate and powerful portrait of a group of women at... Read More
Yellowface: R.F. Kuang in Conversation with Roxane Gay
Both award-winning and bestselling authors R.F. Kuang (Babel, The Poppy War) and Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist, Hunger) write probing social commentary on the intersections of... Read More
Worker Writers School
“Essential Workers” or “Frontline Workers” are terms that became part of our common language during the COVID-19 pandemic. Join members of New York City’s frontline... Read More
Translation Slam
The Translation Slam puts different translations of the same text side by side and invites the translators, authors, and audience members to join in a... Read More
Matters of Offense: Ayad Akhtar & Eboo Patel
From the literary world to college campuses the relationships between art, identity, appropriation, and free speech are hotly contested. Increasingly the value of freedom of... Read More
Off-Kilter: Fairy-Horror-Tales in the 21st Century
As global crises abruptly manifest from invisible viruses, the swelling miasma of greenhouse gasses, world-threatening geopolitical tensions, it’s no surprise that in the past few... Read More
The Past’s Presence
Historians’ work unearthing the past offers invaluable revelations about the landscape of modern American politics. With the freedom to tell authentic histories under attack in... Read More
The Affordability Crisis and Future Hope
The current global cost of living crisis is fueling a staggering rise in inequality as it catapults health care, housing, food, and education to unaffordable... Read More