Evenings with an Author

How can speaking about the villains of LGBTQ past build a more just LGBTQ future? Ben Miller reveals an alternative queer history.

Novelist Kate Briggs and translator Yasmine Seale discuss motherhood, fiction, and time: making it, measuring it, filling it, and writing it.

2022-23 American Library Visiting Fellow Adrienne Raphel and poet Megan Fernandes read and discuss a selection of recent works. An evening dedicated to the practice of poetry in the modern world.

From their first foundations to the present day, celebrated art historian R. Howard Bloch takes us inside six of France’s most magnificent cathedrals.

Carmen Boullosa and Samantha Schnee consider translation many times over: from the Book of Genesis, to Boullosa's Book of Eve, to Schnee's translation of Boullosa.

The heroines of classical literature may not have been as submissive as traditional interpretations propose. Learn how women across literature have repeatedly and strategically said ‘no’.

2022-23 Visiting Fellow Adrienne Raphel provides an exclusive preview of her research at the Library and the secrets to her method.

Three environment experts discuss how legislation can lead us away from climate catastrophe.

The parking lot exercises a tyrannical grip over American geography. Join author Henry Grabar and journalist Simon Kuper in asking: how has the storage of cars taken priority over human life?

From North Indian classical music to American folk, novelist and musician Amit Chaudhuri speaks on dissonant forms of sound and listening’s universal power.