Friends for Life: The Complicated, Unbreakable Bonds
What role do friendships play in our lives—setting us on new paths, grounding us, dissolving and reappearing at critical moments—and how do they shape the... Read More
Fireside Chat: Marlon James and Ben Okri – A Fire in My Head
What are the burning issues and obsessions that inflame writers today—or at least the minds of Booker Prize-winning authors Marlon James and Ben Okri? James... Read More
Ukrainian Writers at War
The war in Ukraine has brought forth a remarkable resistance and solidarity among its citizens, as well as unimaginable personal and professional transformations. Artem Chapeye,... Read More
Spirited Away
Four acclaimed writers–Namwali Serpell (The Furrows), Kevin Chen (Ghost Town), Joseph Han (Nuclear Family), and Samanta Schweblin (Seven Empty Houses) convene for one special event... Read More
Women Talking
In the film adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel Women Talking, Director Sarah Polley paints an intimate and powerful portrait of a group of women in... 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
The Affordability Crisis and Future Hope
The current global cost of living crisis is fueling a staggering rise in inequality as it exacerbates extremes of unaffordability in health care, housing, food,... Read More
Novel & Place
When we talk about reading, we almost always talk about being transported. But where are we going? How does the place we are transported to... Read More
Ottessa Moshfegh Presents: Why Write?
Beyond the publishing industry’s tireless work catering toward a market in flux, the landscape of culture, social politics, and online discourse shifts faster than novelists... Read More