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An Evening with Poet Robert Hass

Robert Hass

Known also as an essayist, translator, and activist on behalf of poetry, literacy, and the environment, the former United States…

Writing The World

Edward Hirsch, Eavan Boland, Peter Cole, Adam Zagajewski

Discussing Hebrew, Polish, and Irish writers, four of the world’s best known poets examine how local politics, national realities, and…

A Tribute to Wanda Coleman

Terrance Hayes, Douglas Kearney

And also featuring Stephen Kessler, Ron Koertge, Laurel Ann Bogen, Charles Harper Webb, Michael Datcher, Suzanne Lummis, Sesshu Foster, Jack…

Expanding our Universe:
An Astronomer and a Physicist Walk into a Room…

Wendy L. Freedman, Sean Carroll

The work of Wendy L. Freedman, one of the world’s most influential astronomers, is based on being an observer, while…

An Evening with Cheech Marin

Cheech Marin

Did you know that Cheech—which is not his real name—is also the owner of the most renowned collection of Chicano…

The Checklist Manifesto:
How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande

Gawande, a bestselling author and surgeon, takes us on an intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and…

Violence

Slavoj Zizek

A philosopher and cultural critic — whose thought challenges traditional trajectories —  takes on the signal issue of violence and…

Our Story Begins

Tobias Wolff

One of America’s “most exquisite storytellers” (Esquire), a master of the memoir and the short story, reads from and discusses…

Lush Life: A Novel

Richard Price

From a great American realist-the author of Clockers and co-writer of The Wire-an X-ray of the streets of New York…

Cleopatra’s Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire

Judith Thurman

The longtime New Yorker writer — who once spent an evening with Jackie Onassis, smoking cigarettes and talking about men…