Evenings with an Author

Joanna Biggs and Lauren Oyler consider why we read who we read, what we owe to the literary past, and how to write for the future.

Artist Cornelius Tulloch and poet Christian Campbell explore diaspora through identity, environment, and artistic expression.

Join Visiting Fellow Adam Shatz and writer Jake Lamar in mapping out jazz's transatlantic journeys from the 20th century to today.

Visiting Fellow Christian Campbell and Curator Claire Tancons consider the poetics and politics of movement in the Black Diaspora through language, gesture, and migration.

Novelists Ayşegül Savas and Chris Knapp discuss their respective novels, The Anthropologists and State of Emergency.

Ivy Pochoda and Katherine Pancol discuss Pochoda's latest thriller, Sing Her Down, a disastrous game of cat-and-mouse between a prisoner and her former cellmate.

Is populism on the rise or in retreat in the U.S. and Europe?

Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster discusses her forthcoming book On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe.

Journalist Simon Kuper discusses his new memoir, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, with fellow journalist Pamela Druckerman

Journalist Cody Delistraty contemplates our changing understanding of grief in his new book The Grief Cure: Looking for an End to Loss.