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 well as the coercive sterilizations of some four hundred thousand others classified as “feeble-minded,” be officially acknowledged as crimes at all. Dagmar Herzog’s new book […]

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 Qur’an has been translated by an Islamic scholar in collaboration with a poet familiar with the traditions and techniques of English verse. Translators M.A.R. Habib […]

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 between ancient oral traditions and the vibrant world of spoken word poetry today. From Sumerian epics to Slam poetry, Eke explores how words have shaped […]

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 from spiritual teachers across the centuries and informed by her own experiences of heartbreak, Starr’s teachings offer an antidote to despair in these turbulent times, […]

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 limited resources and even coming to blows in the crowded neighborhoods of major cities. In Opening Doors,Hasia R. Diner, one of the world’s preeminent historians […]

This presentation explores Elon Magazine, a work of design anthropology that uses parody to explore the celebrity and cultural milieu of Elon Musk. While the magazine is comprised of writing based on research and fieldwork, many of the visuals were produced via extensive collaboration with the generative artificial intelligence model, Midjourney. The talk will bring […]

Damion Searls presents his translation of Overstaying by Ariane Koch, with Emma Ramadan. Winner of the most prestigious German prize for debut fiction, Swiss playwright and visual artist Ariane Koch’s Overstaying is an absurdist tour de force.

In The Architecture of Urbanity (Princeton University Press, 2024) leading architect Vishaan Chakrabarti asks, how can housing design be part of the solution to our global problems rather than exacerbate our existing challenges? He argues that “connective design”— a conscious attempt by a designer to forge deeper bonds across society at every scale—can help heal […]

After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Associated Press (AP) brought news about life under the Third Reich to tens of millions of American readers. The AP was America’s most important source for foreign news but to continue reporting under the Nazi regime the agency made both journalistic and moral compromises. […]

Philippe Petit reflects on the World Trade Center, his iconic performance, and its legacy half a century later.

Join Aperture and McNally Jackson for a conversation between artist Diana Markosian and author Coco Mellors to celebrate the launch of Markosian’s most recent publication, Father (Aperture, 2024), an intimate and engrossing diaristic portrayal of estrangement and reconnection, recounted through documentary photographs, family snapshots, text, and visual ephemera.

On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, the eminent Talmudist Jacob Joseph. All went well until the procession crossed Sheriff Street, where the six-story R. Hoe and Company printing press factory towered over the intersection. Without […]

Join Dr. Alok Aggarwal as he discusses the science behind the mystical and magical world of Artificial Intelligence and his new book The Fourth Industrial Revolution & 100 Years of AI (1950-2050): The Truth About AI & Why It’s Only a Tool.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s new book Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one family’s history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives’ tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, […]

An evening featuring a range of brilliant minds from NYC's poetry scene. The title for this new monthly series comes from Herman Melville’s poem “Art”. Poetry, wine, and the sea have always been inextricably intertwined. This reading series seeks to highlight poets from all over the city, and give them a backdrop of McNally Jackson’s […]

In an era of deepening globalization and multicultural integration, Chinese-language literature serves not only as a rich carrier of Chinese cultural heritage but also as a vital bridge connecting diverse cultures and ideas. For overseas Chinese writers, the challenge lies in maintaining their cultural identity while balancing literary traditions and innovative ideas in a rapidly […]

Writing workshops, panel discussions, presentations, book signings, and more.

Clement Clarke Moore is known the world over for his masterpiece of juvenile fiction, Twas the Night Before Christmas — less well-known is Moore's own life story and the involvement of his parents and grandparents during the revolutionary period. Join author and historian Pamela McColl for a festive presentation on the life and times of […]

The Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti all his life declared himself a “mortal enemy” of death—and here, in English at last, is his landmark book on the subject. The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on […]

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.

The Museum’s online series The Modern Concrete Skyscraper continues with a look back into the early 20th century with a talk by structural engineer and historian Tyler Sprague on the unique development of concrete skyscrapers in the Pacific Northwest. In the early 1900s, as Seattle grew into a significant urban center for the region, its […]

Read and discuss The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya. Stop by the New Amsterdam library to pick up a copy. In case of extreme weather, meet at the New Amsterdam Library.

Conversation with Joseph Nye, acclaimed author of Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics and one of the foremost thinkers on international relations. In today’s era of escalating geopolitical tensions, where economic competition, technological rivalry, and regional conflicts dominate the global landscape, the concept of soft power—the ability to influence others through attraction […]

Financial literacy program designed to educate women of any age about the financial matters that affect their lives. The program provides information, resources and learning activities to educate and create a safe and welcoming place for women to learn, share their experiences, and ask questions.

Join us to analyze and discuss this early 20th century memoir that speaks so well to our contemporary socio-political malaise like no other.

Former students, musicians, and scholars talk about the impact of 9/11 on college students and the jazz community.

Join Chukwudi Iwuji, acclaimed stage and screen actor, for a reading to mark the centenary of James Baldwin. Iwuji, who has been immersed in Baldwin’s work as part of a forthcoming project, will be reading selections of special personal meaning.

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 […]

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.

Join Eleanor Reissa, author/actress/singer/director with Artistic Director Zalmen Mlotek as they discuss the progress of her new work, currently titled: The Journey Continues. As part of the Folksbiene’s continued interest in the grant provided to Eleanor by the New York State Council for the Arts, join us in this exploratory evening to learn about Eleanor’s […]