The Library is honored to welcome renowned legal scholar and feminist advocate Catharine A. MacKinnon, in conversation with philosopher Kate Kirkpatrick.
Celebrated French author Marie Darrieussecq joins us at the Library to discuss her new book, Sleepless–a literary, philosophical, and scientific meditation on sleep and wakefulness.
In-person at the Center for the Art of Translation, Linnea Axelsson, Alexis Wright, Saskia Vogel and Tommy Orange on writing and translation.
International bestseller Barbara Kingsolver joins us at the Library to discuss her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Demon Copperhead.
Seasoned translators Tess Lewis and Daniel Levin Becker will face off at the Library for a Valentine’s evening of multilingual competition.
Join two of the UK’s most celebrated debut authors, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Thea Lenarduzzi, as they delve into interplays of language, heritage, and writing.
In an unparalleled and personal history of Berlin, writer and art critic Kirsty Bell considers the layered process of making, unmaking, and remaking lives, homes, and urban spaces.
The Library welcomes author of #You Know You’re Black in France When, Trica Keaton for a conversation about antiblackness and the politics of race in France.
In the presence of Jim Dine, Hugo Pernet, Ghazal Mosadeq, and others, discover Journal: a new, multilingual magazine stressing the urgency of poetry in conversation.
Essayist and critic Brian Dillon joins us at the Library to share his love of language.
Join Karin Roffman and Sharon Roffman for an evening of poetry, biography, and musical performance celebrating the life of American poet John Ashbery.
Composer-in-Residence and Miss America 2019, Nia Franklin, sings jazz standards, spirituals, and music of her own from her 2021 EP, Extended.
