Yung Wing (1828–1912) was a transformative figure in China’s modernization. Often hailed as the first Chinese graduate of an American university, his life and work transcended this singular achievement. While […]

Walk & writing session led by poet Jon Curley. Participants will be encouraged to use observations as a way to enhance their writing styles in any preferred mode. Registration required, […]

Antisemitism flourished in early twentieth-century America. The Great Wave of Immigration from 1881 to 1914 brought 2.2 million eastern European Jews to America, fleeing persecution and seeking opportunity. They were […]

Skyscrapers today are controversial – especially in New York – but globally they are getting taller and more numerous. This evening features two authors, an economist, Jason M. Barr, and […]

A modern argument, grounded in philosophy and cultural criticism, about childbearing ambivalence and how to overcome it.

Hear poetry hailing from every corner of NYC. Share your poems on our open-mic stage.

This Flag Day Parade will kick off at noon from City Hall Park, march down Broadway, and end at the grandstand in front of Fraunces Tavern at about 12:30pm. An […]

Come-as-you-are poetry writing meetup that is free and open to all ages. There will be moments to write poetry, recite poetry, and enjoy the summer sun with new friends. Don’t […]

Inspired by the often overlooked experiences of African-American maritime workers - Love for NY’s Waterways: Stories from the Stoop is a Moth-style storytelling and open mic event that celebrates the […]

In The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World, diplomat and negotiator Stuart E. Eizenstat recounts America’s most significant and consequential negotiations over the past fifty years. Eizenstat discusses the events that led up to the negotiations, the drama that took place around the table, and draws lessons from […]

Walk & writing session led by poet Jon Curley. Participants will be encouraged to use observations as a way to enhance their writing styles in any preferred mode. Registration required, please email: [email protected].

Join scholar James Shapiro and playwright Ayad Akhtar for a conversation on theater and democracy, art and citizenship—an interrogation of the American cultural and political landscape then and now as presented in The Playbook, Shapiro’s new history of the rise and fall of the Federal Theatre Project.

The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activist Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers--and the year when our country changed.

Families are invited to get creative while exploring Jewish heritage and culture through engaging activities and crafts. This month we are celebrating Pride by learning about influential Queer Jews throughout history, making our own pride flags, and creating friendship bracelets! Recommended for families with children ages five and up.

Opening preview reception, lecture, and optional dinner for upcoming special exhibition, Lafayette: A Hero’s Return, opening to the public on June 25. Marquis de Lafayette, a young, wealthy French aristocrat, volunteered for and later led the Continental Army to victory with General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Before his death in 1834, Lafayette […]

A decade ago, concerns about energy consumption in the building sector focused on operational carbon – particularly, emissions associated with heating and cooling. Today, though, the discussion has shifted in part to embodied carbon, which can also be called “upfront carbon,” because it is carbon released into the atmosphere before the building even opens its […]

Author, essayist, poet, and literary scholar Joy Ladin will be joined by poet and Yetzirah founder Jessica Jacobs for a conversation about Jewish poetry. Sharing poems from their recent and past works, including Ladin’s forthcoming book Family and Jacob’s recent unalone, Ladin and Jacobs will discuss how Jewish tradition can inspire new poetic approaches, and […]

Andrew Waugh is a founding director of Waugh Thistleton Architects, a British firm established in 1997 alongside Anthony Thistleton. In 2009, they completed Murray Grove, the world’s first nine-story mass timber building, located in London. As a pioneer and advocate for sustainable, engineered wood in architecture, Waugh has dedicated his practice to developing efficient, aesthetically […]

Families are invited to get creative while exploring Jewish heritage and culture through engaging activities and crafts. This month we are celebrating Pride by learning about influential Queer Jews throughout history, making our own pride flags, and creating friendship bracelets! Recommended for families with children ages five and up.

Perhaps no single day in US history was as threatening to the survival of the nation as August 24, 1814, when British forces captured Washington. This unique moment might have significantly altered the nation's path forward, but the event and the reasons why it happened are often forgotten. In this lecture, Dr. Robert Watson explores […]

Legacy Russell presents Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us, in conversation with J Wortham.

From NYU professor of developmental psychology Niobe Way, an in-depth exploration about what boys and young men teach us about themselves, us, and the toxic culture we have created; one in which we value money over people, toys over human connection, and academic achievement over kindness.

The Third Reich was one of the bloodiest regimes in history, but are the atrocities committed during World War II being lost to modern memory? Through the framing of the Nuremberg trials and eyewitness testimony of American journalist William L. Shirer, this six-part documentary series from filmmaker Joe Berlinger explores the shocking rise and fall […]

A beloved memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature—whose graphic, funny, and caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishments.

Read­ings, work­shops, open mics, instal­la­tions, per­for­mances, writ­ing activ­i­ties, book­selling, chil­dren’s pro­gram­ming, a beer gar­den, deli­cious food, and a whole lot of lying around in the grass lis­ten­ing to poetry. By […]

We don't always consider the powerful impact that the War of Independence had on the physical landscape of 18th century America – much less how those impacts might still be […]

Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland and its surrounding towns to worksites in Germany. Believing […]

Join Sibling Rivalry Press founding publisher Bryan Borland, editor-in-chief Seth Pennington, and a spectrum of SRP-published writers from a decade of defiance that changed the face of American poetry. SRP, […]

Join author Claudia de Rham and the Academy’s Chief Scientific Officer Brooke Grindlinger as they delve into the hidden facets of gravity’s true nature—and de Rham’s new book, The Beauty […]

Join author Arturo Casadevall and the Academy’s Chief Scientific Officer Brooke Grindlinger as they dive into the dual nature of fungi—beneficial allies and deadly foes——and Casadevall’s new book, What if […]

A panel of experts will cap our lecture series The Short History and Promising Future of Tall Mass Timber Buildings with a discussion of Height & Hybrids. Our speakers include […]

Hannah Regel presents The Last Sane Woman, in conversation with Fiona Alison Duncan. A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure.

Final round of the second annual Teen Poetry Slam series, a program empowering teen performing artists. The Parlé Endeavors Teen Poetry Slam Series is a New York City-wide poetry exhibition […]

Families are invited to get creative while exploring Jewish heritage and culture through engaging activities and crafts. This month we are celebrating Pride by learning about influential Queer Jews throughout […]

Unique poetry reading and book talk with author Steve Mentz who has reimagined Herman Melville's great American classic Moby-Dick, without the monomaniacal quest of Captain Ahab. In this event, we […]

Maritime-themed book club.

In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton offers a fascinating examination of the emergence of antisemitic iconography in the Middle Ages. The straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, the […]

Sarah Manguso presents Liars, in conversation with Lyz Lenz. When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live […]

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 […]