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The Latter Days

Michelle Huneven, Judith Freeman

How does one become a writer? For acclaimed novelist Judith Freeman— born the sixth child of eight in a devout…

Homegoing: A Novel

Yaa Gyasi

Hailed as “an inspiration” by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel, Homegoing, traces 300 years of history and family…

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Narrative Scarcity

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Maxine Hong Kingston

In this short clip,  Viet Thanh Nguyen describes the narrative economy in which he and other Asian Americans writers are working…

Eddie Huang on Dominant Culture

Eddie Huang, Constance Wu

Chef, food personality, bestselling author of Fresh Off the Boat, and inspiration behind the hit television show of the same…

The Way to the Spring:
Life and Death in Palestine

Ben Ehrenreich, Amy Wilentz

In conversation with Amy Wilentz, Ben Ehrenreich discusses his mission to listen and understand the complexities of human experience in…

PEN Emerging Voices: A Reading

An evening of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction with readings from this year’s PEN Emerging Voices Fellows.

Live from the Vault:
Rare Recordings of James Baldwin

Melvin L. Rogers, Nina Revoyr

In partnership with Pacifica Radio Archives, ALOUD presented this live broadcast dedicated to the voice of author and civil rights…

The Un-Private Collection

Jeff Koons, John Waters

Artist Jeff Koons and filmmaker/author/photographer John Waters discussed Koon’s innovative and ever-changing art making practice, which ranges from sculpture to…

Words Will Break Cement:
The Passion of Pussy Riot

Masha Gessen

Through the trial of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen, author of PUTIN: THE MAN WITHOUT…

The Warrior’s Return:
From Surge to Suburbia

David Finkel, Albert "Skip" Rizzo

When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? When their deployments…