Families are invited to get creative while exploring Jewish heritage and culture through engaging activities and crafts. Recommended for families with children ages five and up.

In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied important roles in medieval English society. Protected by the […]

In this lecture, Tyson Reeder traces early America's rocky beginnings, when foreign interference and political conflict threatened to undermine its aspirations and ideals, even its very existence. Spanning the period […]

The evening will feature a panel discussion with Yue-Sai Kan, Xiaoyu and Princess of Chinatown. Moderated by Na Zhong and Jiaoyang Li, the conversation will discuss women’s relationships with beauty, […]

In Highrises Art Deco, digital artist Chris Hytha has exploited drone photography to create stunning views of skyscrapers across the United States. His images are paired with histories researched and […]

Matthew Davis presents Let Me Try Again, in conversation with Adam Friedland. A romantic tragicomedy of faith, family, and folly.

Book presentation. A doctor's powerful meditation on what his patients taught him, and what they can teach us about listening, healing, and public health.

Do you regret not talking to the hot person on the train reading a book you like? Did your last Hinge date reveal that they haven't read a book since […]

Join Álvaro Enrigue, Francine Prose, Natasha Wimmer, and Andrew Martin for a panel on the life and work of Roberto Bolaño, in celebration of Picador’s reissues of By Night in […]

Ross Benjamin presents The Diaries of Franz Kafka, in conversation with Elif Batuman. An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges […]

Celebrate Catherine Barnett and Jason Koo as they each read from their fourth full-length poetry collections. The pair will discuss metaphysics, grief, and what new poetic territory they’ve breached in […]

For more than 200 years, the name “Rothschild” has been synonymous with two things: great wealth, and conspiracy theories about what they’re “really doing” with it. Almost from the moment […]

Panel discussion on the immigrant experience. This conversation will explore the origins of immigration and how it illuminates or contrasts with the future.

Every Monday leading up to the election, McNally Jackson Seaport is hosting journalists and writers to help break down the events of the week, as it relates to their area […]

While the tabloids and fan publications portrayed the Nimoys as a “close family,” to his son Adam Nimoy, Leonard Nimoy was a total stranger. The actor was as inscrutable as […]

Event honoring the life, work, and legacy of poet and scholar Tyrone Williams with readings by and about Williams, and bring your own remembrance.

Featuring Michael Lee Bross, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Michelle Greco, Darla Himeles, and Yesenia Montilla.

Alice Carrière presents Everything/Nothing/Someone, in conversation with Michael Imperioli. A "remarkable" (New York Times Book Review) memoir that tells of a young woman's coming-of-age amid glamour, excess, and neglect, and […]

Though it is one of the world’s oldest building materials, wood is still revolutionizing the way buildings are designed and constructed today. It is imperative that everyone – from architects, […]

Reception and lecture on the formation and implementation of the United States Constitution by Tom Hand*, author of An American Triumph: America’s Founding Era through the Lives of Ben Franklin, […]

Discussion of well-regarded contemporary works. Each session will feature questions and talking points to help readers further connect to the story.

September 17, 1787 marks the signing of the US Constitution. George Washington wrote a cover letter explaining to the states why they should ratify it. The first printing was in […]

A recent Associated Press poll reveals that 58% of US adults across both political parties believe that AI will amplify the spread of misinformation in the 2024 presidential election. Despite […]

Innovative coral restoration through the lens of both science and art.

Right from the beginning of his career, Sholem Asch, a yeshiva school dropout from a small Polish village, placed himself at the center of global theatrical culture. His 24 dramas […]

Schindler’s Listed tells the story of Mark Biederman’s twenty-year quest to find gold coins which his father’s family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by […]

Livestreamed talk with Tulane professor and author Rob Lalka on his latest book, The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power.

Nora Lange presents Us Fools, in conversation with David Wallace-Wells. A tragicomic, intimate American story of two precocious sisters coming of age during the Midwestern farm crisis of the 1980s.

Chinese-language stand-up comedy.

New York and Hong Kong are dense, intense vertical cities. In this truly international webinar, architects and educators Jason Carlo, a professor of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah, […]

Book talk. In When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, award-winning journalist and author of the widely acclaimed 2019 book, The Plaza, Julie […]

Experience the newest poetry collections from Sophie Cabot Black and Marie Howe through poems that capture visions of the pastoral and glimpses of the quotidian. The evening’s readings and conversation […]

Join Adam Dalva and Brandon Taylor to discuss the life and work of Karl Ove Knausgaard, in celebration of The Third Realm.

Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s would these murders, as […]

Experience a new verse translation of the Qur’an that captures the exalted magnificence of the Arabic verses, expressing its original elegance in simple English. This is the first time the […]

The Icons of Culture Festival brings audiences into the room with trailblazers in music, comedy, film, sports, and more to talk about pushing boundaries, making a mark, and elevating the everyday to the iconic. Tonight at 6pm see Ally Love or Alok. At 8pm, see Chloe Bennet and Charles Yu, or John David Washington.

Join McNally Jackson and the literary podcast, Burned by Books, for a live recording of a conversation between Jennifer Egan (The Candy House), Katie Kitamura (Intimacies), Tess Gunty (The Rabbit Hutch), and host of the show, Chris Holmes. Touching on their most recent works, the power of creative writing in times of crisis, as well […]

The Icons of Culture Festival brings audiences into the room with trailblazers in music, comedy, film, sports, and more to talk about pushing boundaries, making a mark, and elevating the everyday to the iconic. This afternoon at 1pm see Kathleen Turner, and at 3pm see Misty Copeland or Philippe Petit. At 6pm, see Alex Edelman […]

Find out what happens behind the scenes when poetry and film meet. Join us for a screening of award-winning short poem films and discussion between filmmakers and poets who’ve collaborated with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s ongoing Read By poem film series, featuring poets Moncho Ollin Alvarado, Sarah Sala, and Adeeba Shahid Talukder and directors […]

Using remote sensing data, including LiDAR (light detection and ranging) and high-resolution satellite imagery, archaeologists are working across scales and mapping sites at levels of detail that once seemed impossible. In parallel, deep learning models are transforming our ability to analyze the resulting large-scale datasets. However, these new developments also present practical and ethical challenges. […]

Jewish Currents senior reporter Alex Kane will host a conversation with journalist Spencer Ackerman, historian Stephen Wertheim, and civil rights leader Maya Berry on foreign policy and the 2024 presidential election. They will discuss Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’s foreign policy visions, regional war in the Middle East, and the bipartisan consensus on upholding US […]

Self-destruction and self-creation in the work of Dorothy Parker, Djuna Barnes, and Caroline Blackwood. Join Sloane Crosley, Merve Emre, Heidi Julavits, and the staff of McNally Editions as a glass is raised to three iconic New York Writers and three provocative works: Constant Reader, I Am Alien to Life, and The Stepdaughter.

Poets House is excited to relaunch one of our most beloved series, Passwords, which invites poets to reflect on the work and impact of other poets. Richard Hell and Janaka Stucky will read from a new edition of Bill Knott‘s landmark first book, The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans (Black Ocean, 2024), published by Stucky […]

Art Spiegelman in conversation with Françoise Mouly.

On November 9, 2024, a special commemorative event will take place at China Institute in to honor the life and legacy of Peipei Cheng, a pioneering martial arts actress who made a lasting impact on Asian cinema. Initiated by Ms. Chiang Ching, a close friend of Peipei and organized by the Renwen Society at China […]

As thousands of first responders mobilized on the ground in response to the attacks on 9/11, fighter pilots took to the nation's skies. In this moment of unprecedented crisis, United States Air Force Lieutenant General Marc Sasseville, Major Heather Penney, and Lieutenant General Daniel Caine scrambled their F-16 jets, Sasseville and Penney without any weapons, […]

In this lecture, join author, photographer, and licensed NYC sightseeing guide Tommy Silk as he discusses how he decided on the 120 buildings that constitute the hidden landmarks of the five boroughs. Discover the histories of the city's remaining buildings from the 18th century and earlier, including Fraunces Tavern itself, and learn why so few […]

Book reading by author Tessa Wegert.

Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile roofs of anonymous, local craftsmen to skyscrapers designed by internationally acclaimed architects, from temple markets and itinerant peddlers to megamalls, and from open air stages to auditoriums and stadiums […]

Reinhold Kulle seemed like the perfect school employee. But in 1982, as his retirement neared, his long-concealed secret came to light. The chief custodian at Oak Park and River Forest High School outside Chicago had been a Nazi, a member of the SS, and a guard at a brutal slave labor camp during World War […]

Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. It is at once a gripping investigation into family trauma, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life.

On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a 39-year-old Jewish manager at a factory near the site […]

Discussion of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie.

Book reading by author Michael Idov.

In 1965, the 47-story and 623ft/190m Place Victoria in Montreal’s financial district, also known as the Stock Exchange Tower or Tour de la Bourse, surpassed Chicago’s 1000 Lake Shore Plaza as the world’s tallest concrete skyscraper. Designed and built from 1960-1965 by Italian architect Luigi Moretti and Italian structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, along with […]

Celebrate The Book of Eve (Deep Vellum, 2023) a feminist twist on the Book of Genesis, by Mexican poet Carmen Boullosa. She is joined in conversation by translator Samantha Schnee and art pieces by Jicky Schee, which will be screened alongside the reading. Afterwards, the two poets will discuss The Book of Eve and the […]

Award-winning photographer Joe McNally’s "Faces of Ground Zero: Portraits of the Heroes of September 11, 2001" is comprised of 246 large-scale polaroids featuring individuals who responded to 9/11 and contributed to the rescue and recovery operations at Ground Zero. A cross-section of these responder portraits will be on view in the Museum beginning this November. […]

Book reading by author Joyce Carol Oates.

A masterly crafted and haunting tale of survival, longing, and empathy, set during the Spanish Civil War.

Special two episode screening of the new upcoming TV show, The Poet Speaks with Amanda Eke, with host and Executive Producer, Amanda Eke. Embark on a poetic excavation unearthing parallels […]

Celebrate John Shoptaw‘s collection Near-Earth Object (Unbound Edition Press, 2024) with readings and a conversation between Shoptaw and Jenny Odell.

Author Mirabai Starr will share wisdom from her new book, Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground, which challenges readers to discover the extraordinary in the everyday. Grounded in lessons […]

Popular belief holds that the various ethnic groups that emigrated to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century regarded one another with open hostility, fiercely competing for […]