How does one write one’s way out of a traumatic event? Does disaster inevitably resist narrative? Preti Taneja speaks on language, loss, and possibilities of resolution.
Bestselling author Mohsin Hamid speaks on new visions of society, the self, and others in the post-racial world of new novel The Last White Man.
Author Jenny Erpenbeck converses with novelist Claire Messud about shared histories, divergent perspectives, and common life in the divided city of 1986 Berlin.
Are we in a fourth wave of feminism? How can the current feminist movement be defined, if definition is possible at all? Given the current terrain, what does the future of feminism look like?
What can memoir do for global health? A personal perspective on chronic illness shows the importance of patient voices in the medical field and raises awareness for the international "superbug" crisis.
What is the relationship between migration and writing? When one’s life and legal status have been reduced to written files, what other possibilities for storytelling emerge?
Six women changed science, and were forgotten by history. Uncover the women written out of the Enlightenment with historian Nina Gelbart.
Celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips discusses changing our understanding of change and getting better at talking about getting better.
Three climate experts and activists convene to discuss the future of food on a planet in peril.
An astronomer asks: how have humans across history, from astrophysicists to poets, written about the moon?
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.
