Jake Lamar brings us into the gritty and exhilarating highs and lows of the 1930s Harlem jazz scene in a discussion of his celebrated crime novel, Viper’s Dream.
A special discussion, preview, and performance of the Opéra Comique's Breaking the Waves, joined by the composer, librettist, and star performer of the show.
A mysterious portrait in a Mumbai museum led journalist Livia Manera Sambuy on a search across the globe for information about a princess lost to history. Discover the remarkable life of Amrit Kaur.
Jami Attenberg discusses life in transit, the creative process, and finding a home in herself in new memoir I Came All This Way to Meet You.
As enrollment in English and history classes at universities falls, literary study has begun to find professional outlets outside of academia. Are the humanities in crisis?
In-person at the Brooklyn Center for Fiction, Dorothee Elmiger and Kate Zambreno discuss translation: how to translate, who gets to translate, for whom to translate, and how stories are told.
Three translators reflect upon their movements between different languages and times in a discussion of Cecile Wajsbrot’s new, Virginia Woolf-inspired work, Nevermore.
Two experts in menopause discuss the science behind it, the reality of experiencing it, and the importance of broaching the subject.
How is the environmental crisis an economic problem? What solutions are available? Three climate experts discuss the relationship between climate justice and capital.
What is to be done about African art in European museums? How can restitution happen? What museums and nations are responsible for acting? In conversation with Rachel Donadio, two experts on the subject discuss.
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.
