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How The Handmaid’s Tale Changed the Conversation About Women

Bruce Miller

Since Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was adapted for television by creator Bruce Miller, the conversation about women in society…

Secret Identity: A Novel

Alex Segura

The bestselling and award-winning writer Alex Segura, the author of five Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery novels and the acclaimed Archie…

Evoke LA

Tyree Boyd-Pates, Suyapa Portillo Villeda, and Natalia Molina

Join MacArthur Fellow and USC Annenberg Professor Josh Kun with the series historians—the Autry’s associate curator Tyree Boyd-Pates, Pitzer professor…

Read Dangerously:
The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Azar Nafisi

The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide for our times, arming readers…

The Sentence

Louise Erdrich

In her stunning and timely new novel, Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of…

ALOUD Cooks

Curated by Leslie Jonath

Food connects us to our past, to our family, our communities and to each other. As we reflect on the…

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Andrea Elliott

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott shares an unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty,…

An Evening with Joan Didion

Joan Didion

A literary icon for Los Angeles and a cultural visionary for the rest of America, the acclaimed author of The…

The Matter of Black Lives:
Writing from The New Yorker

Jelani Cobb

Historian and writer Jelani Cobb present a collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America, from stories…

Lost & Found at the Movies:
Into Great Silents

John Nein

For as long as there’s been a movie industry, there have been filmmakers compelled to work outside of it. In…