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Oaxaca’s Third Gender: Man, Woman, Muxe

Víctor Cata, Bamby Salcedo, Maritza Sanchez

THIS PROGRAM WAS CONDUCTED IN BOTH SPANISH AND ENGLISH. Anthropologists have traced the Meso-American acceptance of people of mixed gender…

Threat of Extinction: Language Activism and Preservation

Bob Holman, Vincent Medina, Odilia Romero Hernández, and Virginia Carmelo with linguist Leanne Hinton

The essence of who we are is wrapped up in our language. What human knowledge is lost when a language…

An American Family: Being Muslim in the U.S. Military

Khizr Khan

Last fall’s presidential election brought a range of impassioned voices to the national stage, but one of the most captivating…

The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World

David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt

What lies at the heart of humanity’s ability―and drive―to create? New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman teams up with…

Rebellion! Public Art and Political Dissent: Oaxaca and L.A.

Chaz Bojórquez and artist collective Tlacolulokos

With the likes of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, Mexico has a long tradition of politically engaged public art…

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman, Jr.

Why has our society become so punitive? In recent years, critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its…

An Evening with Colm Tóibín and Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner, Colm Tóibín

 From Madame Bovary to Hedda Gabler, some of literature’s most passionate heroines find themselves under the fire of their times. In Tóibín’s The Testament…

The Revolution of Marina M.

Janet Fitch

L.A.’s own Janet Fitch, the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, returns to ALOUD with her newest work, a sweeping…

Home: A Novel

Marilynne Robinson

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author returns to the locale of her novel Gilead in a moving and healing book about love, death, faith,…

La Lengua Sin Frontera (Language Without Borders): Three Indigenous Poets

Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, Natalia Toledo

THIS PROGRAM WAS CONDUCTED IN BOTH SPANISH AND ENGLISH. Join us for an evening celebrating indigenous poetry from the United…