Book reading and signing by Omar Hussain, author of A Thousand Natural Shocks.

Special lecture on Professor Chen Congzhou (1918–2000), widely regarded as the father of modern Chinese Landscape Architecture and Art. A scholar of rare breadth, Chen was not only a pioneering […]

Launch of Kenneth Oppel's instant YA classic: Best of All Worlds. Kenneth (the Silverwings Trilogy) will be joined in conversation by the brilliant David Levithan (Two Boys Kissing; Every Day) […]

Book reading and signing by Mailan Doquang, author of Ceylon Sapphires.

Thirty years ago a New Yorker article, “The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis,” recounted the little-known drama of the threatened collapse of a Manhattan skyscraper. In a new book, The Great Miscalculation: The […]

Authors Lee Hawkins (I Am Nobody’s Slave) and Maud Newton (Ancestor Trouble) explore the complexities of family history and the intergenerational legacies we carry. In conversation, they discuss race, inheritance, […]

Battery Dance, a lower Manhattan–based dance company, held a public dance festival at the World Trade Center Plaza every year between 1982 and 2001. Just two weeks after the 9/11 […]

Book reading and signing by Jim Fusilli, author of A Song for Katy Shayne.

Book reading and signing by Olivia Worley, author of So Happy Together.

What happens when an artist becomes a global phenomenon? In the past decade the Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint has risen to international fame. Join Jodi Hauptman and […]

In Two Sisters, Rosie Whitehouse recounts the harrowing journey of her mother-in-law, Marion, and aunt, Huguette, who fled Nazi-occupied France after their mother was deported to Auschwitz. Seeking refuge, the […]

Hear Xu Bing discuss his groundbreaking, decades-long exploration of language, art, and meaning—one of the most influential artistic practices of the contemporary era. Xu Bing will be featured in Metamorphosis: […]

Join Fence editors and contributors to celebrate the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Fence. The launch party features performances by writers and artists Darcie Dennigan, Leah Dworkin, Brandon Downing, Tracie Morris, […]

Celebrate 175 years of Harper's! Writers, editors, and friends of the magazine will gather to toast the publication of this special anniversary issue and enjoy short readings by contributors to […]

There will be moments to write poetry, recite poetry, and enjoy the summer with new friends. The afternoon will begin upstairs in the library; we’ll discover fragments of queer verse […]

Author Catherine Lacey presents The M​​​​​​ö​bius Book in conversation with Leslie Jamison. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by Vulture and LitHub

Two women in Nazi-occupied Paris created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. With one still in a German prison camp, the other wrote a book about […]

Conversation with renowned economist Paul Sheard, author of The Power of Money: How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper.

Álvaro Enrigue and Rivka Galchen introduce South America's greatest comic. Frank Wynne's translation from the Spanish of Mafalda will bring readers into the life and mind of a six-year-old girl […]

The Allied leaders rarely spoke directly about the Holocaust in public. When Churchill and Stalin alluded to Nazi mass murder of civilians in early speeches, they said much less than […]

Join Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, Inc. to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill with a lecture by Dr. Samuel A. […]

Book reading and signing by Dwyer Murphy, author of The House on Buzzards Bay.

Maritime-themed book club.

Afternoon of special programming exploring 19th century New York. Hear from speakers on topics including the Marquis de Lafayette's return to America early in the century, immigration to New York, […]

By 1900 New York was the largest city in America. The biggest challenges were moving 3.5 million people, helping them navigate, and providing them with enough power Join us for […]

Book reading and signing by Eric Rickstad, author of the Remote series.

Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy. Jewish country houses—properties that were owned, built, or renewed by Jews—tell a more complex […]

Book reading and signing by Brian Silverman, author of Calypso Blue.

Life Must Go On is the remarkable story of Sol Lurie, a child survivor of six concentration camps during the Holocaust, who continues to be a beacon of hope. After […]

Poetry night, with Elizabeth T. Gray Jr, Terrence Arjoon, Farid Matuk, Arianne Ayu Alizio, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. The title for this new monthly series comes from Herman Melville’s poem […]

The Poet­ry Soci­ety of New York (PSNY) invites poet­ry orga­ni­za­tions and col­lec­tives of all shapes and sizes to bring their unique for­mats, aes­thet­ics, and per­son­al­i­ties to beau­ti­ful Gov­er­nors Island for […]

Rachel Kushner presents her book Creation Lake, in conversation with Molly Young. Creation Lake is described as a “vital” (The Washington Post) and “wickedly entertaining” (The Guardian) novel about a […]

Book reading and signing by Tom Mead, author of The House at Devil's Neck.

Amid the brutality of the Holocaust, one bright spot shone inside the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. In the shadows of the smokestacks was a wooden hut where children sang, […]

Book reading and signing by Gregory Galloway, author of All We Trust.

Poetry meets music outdoors in Battery Park City, with Peter Gizzi, Ariana Reines, and Felukah. Under the sun at the Pavillion in Rockefeller Park, enjoy readings from acclaimed poets Peter […]

Book reading and signing by Karen Dukess, author of Welcome to Murder Week.

In his new book Designing the American Century, Thomas J. Campanella argues that Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano were the foremost spatial designers at work in the mid-20th century. […]

Barbarian Days chronicles William Finnegan's lifelong obsession with catching the perfect wave, against the backdrop of globalization and a growing surf industry. Today, that same surf industry is contending with […]

Book reading and signing by David Gordon, author of Behind Sunset.

Poetry meets music outdoors in Battery Park City. LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs offers a hybrid sound-poetry performance; San Francisco poet laureate and jazz-collaborator Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from Blood on the […]

Ed Park presents his book of stories, An Oral History of Atlantis, in conversation with Rachel Aviv.

Learn all about queer maritime and polar history in this evening of free talks in this mini-symposium presented by the South Street Seaport Museum and the polar social club, Terror […]

Book reading and signing by Terrence McCauley, author of The Twilight Town

If journalism is based on the mission of telling the truth, what kinds of truths do reporters pursue when they write fiction? Four writers and editors (with Kaitlyn Greenidge, Delia […]

Dive into the history and future of New York City’s public pools with the South Street Seaport Museum and + POOL’s Program Director—and proud public pool superfan—Nora Cronin. This lively, […]

I.V. Marie presents Immortal Consequences, in conversation with Amélie Wen Zhao. Six students compete to change their fate at a darkly enchanted boarding school in purgatory where graduation is the […]

Grand finale of Summer Nights with m.s. RedCherries, Danez Smith, and Speedy Ortiz, where poetry meets music outdoors in Battery Park City. Under the sun in Wagner Park, dance along […]

Saturday Storytime, with a book that help kids discover the interconnectedness of every living thing, led by Sparky, the galaxy-traveling pup. Great for kids 4 to 10, but all ages […]

Spies, espionage, and intelligence operations during the American Revolution have long captured the public's imagination, thanks in part to popular books and television series. While these dramatizations highlight a captivating […]

Tireless chronicler of Manhattan's building history, John Tauranac finds a new angle on the city's past in his new book New York's Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers: The City in the […]

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. In celebration, McNally Jackson is hosting a night of conversation about what makes this book such an unforgettable romp, […]

Book reading and signing by Eli Cranor, author of Mississippi Blue 42.

How much honesty does an ‘honest’ marriage really permit a wife? And once you’re no longer a wife, can you really start all over again? The anonymous novel of divorce […]