Marlon James: The Disappearers
A celebration of Marlon James's Booker-finalist novel, in which eight men rehearsing a play are brutally attacked one night and must reckon with the hatred the violence exposed.
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Book Launch at Columbus Circle : We Shall Outlast Them by Hanna Notte in conversation with Keith Gessen
Hanna Notte's book tells how a war became a long battle of wills, with a state refocusing its entire machinery on outlasting its rivals. Keith Gessen joins her in conversation.
Studio Salon: Primary: After and With Alma Thomas
A conversation and reading built around Primary: After and With Alma Thomas, a book on the painter. It's part of the museum's own Studio Salon series, held on The Stoop.
Growing America
American history told through food plants: historic botanical illustrations, planting ledgers and cookbooks inside, then outdoor beds tracing Indigenous foodscapes through the Great Migration.
Freedom to Read: The Fight Against Banned Books in WWII
An hour on how books became weapons in World War II, as the German government set out to ban and burn any title that threatened Nazi ideology, and how others pushed back.
Segue Reading Series: Stine An & Antonio Ochoa
Two poets, Stine An and Antonio Ochoa, share one bill in the Segue Reading Series, an independent poetry series with a clear curatorial point of view. A short, focused evening of listening.
Book Launch: Traumatized by Catherine Liu in conversation with Claire Stapleton
Catherine Liu, author of Virtue Hoarders, traces how shell shock became PTSD and how trauma turned into a tool of social control. Claire Stapleton joins her in conversation.
Columbus Circle Book Launch: Auntie Kristina's Guide to Asian American Activism by Kristina Wong in conversation with Annie Tan
Kristina Wong and Annie Tan read and talk through a witty guide that frames activism as more than holding signs: building spaces and documenting community. Q&A and signing follow.
Litmus Press 25th Anniversary Celebration & Benefit
A reading that marks a quarter century of Litmus Press and doubles as a benefit, so your evening of poetry also helps keep an independent publisher going.
Book Launch Party
NYU Journalism alumna Stacey Patton reads from Strung Up, out from Beacon Press, then joins a live Q&A with Karen Hunter of Sirius FM. Refreshments are served at the signing.
