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The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff, Jon Wiener

The panic began in 1692, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year…

Between The World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robin D.G. Kelley

In a revelatory testament of what it means to be black in America today, this timely new memoir solidifies Coates…

Langston Hughes’ Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz

Laura Karpman

From Africa to the Americas, the south to the north, cities to suburbs, opera to jazz, gospel to be-bop, and…

Unspeakable Empathy

Meghan Daum, Leslie Jamison

With piercing insight and wit, hear from two of today’s most thought-provoking and intimately honest essayists, grappling with the modern…

To Live and Eat in L.A.:
Food Justice in the Age of the Foodie

Ron Finley, Elizabeth Medrano, Neelam Sharma

The L.A. food scene is as trendy, tweeted, pop-upped, and profit-busting as it’s ever been, and yet more people are…

Love, Los Angeles:
A Conversation in Words and Images

Marisela Norte, Lynell George

“Love, Los Angeles” is a letter in progress—a series of notes, fragments, reflections and odes—written by two native daughters navigating…

Song of Myself:
Walt Whitman in Other Words

Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Christopher Merrill, Sholeh Wolpé

With all of its American idioms, virtues, and contradictions, what is it about Walt Whitman’s epic verse Song of Myself…

An Evening with Judy Blume

Judy Blume, Alex Cohen

This iconic author who has won the hearts and minds of readers of all ages, is also known for her…

Dictionaries and the Bending of Language

Mark Z. Danielewski, John McWhorter, Howard A. Rodman

Linguist, political commentator and author John McWhorter talks with genre-busting author Mark Z. Danielewski about whether dictionaries support or inhibit…

Ordinary Light: A Memoir

Tracy K. Smith

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet ascended to the ALOUD stage to discuss her new memoir, a gorgeous kaleidoscope of self and…