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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

Daphne Merkin

Taking from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin’s…

Shakespeare in Today’s America

James Shapiro and Lisa Wolpe

Who gets to see Shakespeare and act in his plays?  Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s extraordinary legacy, Lisa Wolpe…

The Sellout: A Novel

Paul Beatty

Dickens, an “agrarian ghetto,” is the fictional Los Angeles hood at the center of Paul Beatty’s scathingly satirical novel, The…

Where Memory Leads:
A Holocaust Scholar Looks Back

Saul Friedländer

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and UCLA Professor Emeritus Saul Friedländer returns to memoir to recount a tale of intellectual coming-of-age on…

Witness to the Revolution:
Draft Resistance in 60’s Los Angeles

David Harris, Winter Dellenbach, Bob Zaugh

In her riveting oral history of the end of the 60s, Witness to the Revolution, Clara Bingham unveils anew that…

3 Writers on Fear and Loathing

Sara Benincasa, MariNaomi, Shanthi Sekaran, and Michelle Tea

Writers and artists routinely reckon with anxiety and loathing as part of their creative process. Author and comedian Sara Benincasa,…

Shakespeare Now: Race, Justice and the American Dream

Peter Sellars and Ayanna Thompson

Peter Sellars, the renowned avant-garde theater director, and Ayanna Thompson, a prominent Shakespeare scholar, will discuss the ways Shakespeare remains…

An Evening with Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

In 1993, the Nobel committee lauded Toni Morrison, “who, in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life…

Coyote America

Dan Flores

With a brilliant blend of environmental and natural history, Dan Flores’ Coyote America traces the five-million-year-long biological story of an…

Evolution and the Young Mind: Creativity and Learning

Alison Gopnik

Young children often seem especially creative and imaginative. But can we prove that scientifically? And what is it about children’s…