A 2025 National Jewish Book Award Finalist that judges described as “reads like a thriller” and winner of Zibby Awards for Best Family Drama & Best Story of Overcoming, Irena’s Gift explores how reckoning with family betrayal, moral complexity, and hidden histories can reframe our identities—and why excavating these truths matters at a time when […]

Ross Perlin, author of Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, examines the past, present, and future of the world’s most linguistically diverse city, New York. He will also discuss multilingualism, language policy, and the role technology plays in the evolution and documentation of languages. Today, half of the world’s […]

Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and, most recently, A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of the Year, writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country’s history and in his life. Scale Boy is a memoir […]

Writer, art historian, and Holocaust survivor Suzanne Loebl, whose life paralleled much of the events revisited in Plunder and Survival, takes a new look at the Nazis ruthless attack on modern art and at their unprecedented looting of private, mostly Jewish art collections in Austria, Holland, and France. Eighty-five years after the end of the […]

Book reading and signing by Alyssa Sheinmel, author of Such Sheltered Lives

Evening dedicated to poetry that addresses and responds to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Ahmad Almallah, Mandy Shunnarah, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s work bears witness, speaks truth, and offers space for grief, resistance, and solidarity.

In The Flower Bearers, Rachel Eliza Griffiths inscribes the trajectories of two transformational relationships with grace and honesty, chronicling the beauty and pain that comes with opening oneself fully to love.

Nazism has always faced resistance – from the German artists who risked their lives by drawing caricatures of the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try to expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. […]

Tricia Romano, the author of The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture, will discuss the symbiotic relationship between New York City and the alternative weekly - the Village Voice - and how this relationship benefited both entities.

Book reading and signing by May Cobb, author of All the Little Houses.

The apartment buildings and hotels designed by Emery Roth in the 1920s and 1930s – blue chip buildings such as Park Avenue's Ritz Tower and the Central Park West landmarks, the Beresford, the San Remo, the Ardsley – have shaped the ideal of residential luxury evoked in the phrase “prewar building.” In this new edition […]

Book reading and signing by Maria Turead, author of This House Will Feed.

Join Aperture and McNally Jackson Books in a conversation between artist Hal Fischer and writer Jarrett Earnest, celebrating the launch of Hal Fischer’s latest monograph, Hal Fischer: Seminal Works (Aperture, 2025).

The latest book by acclaimed author and journalist Julian Sancton hits shelves on January 27, 2026—and you’re invited to its New York launch at the South Street Seaport Museum! Sancton’s new work, Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire, tells the riveting true story of the San José, a legendary […]

Farzad Mahootian will explore the imaginal space between four themes: alchemy, Jung, the history of science, and AI. He will consider chemists and historians of chemistry. Chemists have benefited greatly by integrating computational tools to exponentially expand chemical space. By contrast, historians of chemistry and alchemy have been somewhat less enthusiastic about applying computational methods […]

Professional development program centered around the legacy of the Holocaust in the creation of the State of Israel. The first part is an hour-long virtual lecture given by NYU Professor Avinoam Patt, building on key themes that are explored in his book Israel and the Holocaust. In this in-depth lecture, Professor Patt will focus on […]

Book reading and signing by W.M. Akers, author of To Kill a Cook.

Book reading and signing by Malcolm Kempt, author of A Gift Before Dying.

From the inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, a riveting exploration of illness and medicine that imagines a more humane form of care. “What was wrong with them? That’s what we wanted to know.” So begins Jonathan Gleason’s prizewinning collection of essays on the human lives behind the corporate, legal, and cultural practices […]

John Larkin - a fast-living, hard-playing, stuttering jazz pianist - overcame abuse, addiction, ageism, and obscurity to stage one of the most improbable debuts in pop music history by turning his greatest pain into his purpose. Based on rare archives and interviews with those who knew him best, this authorized biography is a redemptive, deeply […]

Cameron Awkward-Rich, Jennifer Espinoza, Chet’la Sebree, and Annie Wenstrup’s newest collections explore rifts between personal and collective memory, penning moving poems on history and survival. Upon finding themselves in contended spaces—the museum, the archive, the dictionary, and the airport—these poets radically attend to the world around them through some of the most elegant, ontological verse […]

This gathering brings together alumni of the “Chinese Bridge” Eastern U.S. Competitions and China Institute study abroad programs to share stories, reflections, and cultural experiences, as well as members of the public who want to share their stories.

A new collection of evocative personal essays from one of America’s most beloved nonfiction writers, Anne Fadiman. In Frog, Anne Fadiman returns to her favorite genre, the essay, of which she is one of our most celebrated practitioners. Ranging in subject matter from her deceased frog, to archaic printer technology, to the fraught relationship between […]

Diana Mara Henry’s I Am André is an amazing real-life story of espionage, of courage and resistance, and of friendship and love. It pulls back the veil on the hidden history of the struggle for the identity of the Resistance in France. The life of ‘André’ Joseph Scheinmann is more intriguing and compelling than any […]

In her new book, Road to Nowhere: How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore, historian Emily Lieb describes the Baltimore suburb of Rosemont, which in the 1950s was a vibrant Black middle-class neighborhood of rowhouses and small businesses. By the end of the decade, Rosemont was effectively destroyed by plans for an expressway that was planned, […]

Book reading and signing by Justin C. Key, author of The Hospital at the End of the World.

Part fever dream, part cautionary tale, Station of the Birds spins a narrative about fathers and sons, addiction's hollow banging at the gate, and the ritual sacrifices rooted in agrarian cultures.

By the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who eluded death had lost their homes, families, and entire way of life. Their response was quintessentially Jewish. From a people with a long history of self-narration, survivors gathered in groups and wrote yizkor books […]

Symposioum. Every American President passed through New York City. Some were born here such as Theodore Roosevelt. Some lived here including Herbert Hoover who spent his post Presidential years residing in the Presidential Suite at the Waldorf Astoria. Some were married here. In 1844, for instance, John Tyler wed Julia Gardiner at the Church of […]

This Black History Month, join Theatre Communications Group for a special event to celebrate the publication of "The Struggle Continues: Robbie McCauley,” a collection of scripts, essays, reflections by the groundbreaking playwright, director, and performer. A vital voice in the American theatre, McCauley’s work, which centers her experience as a Black woman growing up in […]

Book reading and signing by Deborah Goodrich Royce, author of Best Boy

Sahar Khraibani, Farid Matuk, Michelle Peñaloza, and Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s decolonial poetics linger on speech, sound, and names. These poets parse language in every way—its mouthfeel, memory, non-meaning, and haunting reverberations. Don’t miss our next to last reading in the 30th Poets House Showcase, a literary exhibition and reading series that captures the breadth […]

Celebrate the life and writing of Baron Wormser (1948-2025). Family, friends, and colleagues will share favorite poems, including work from his new book, James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette and Other Poems (Slant Books, 2026). Readings from Indran Amirthanayagam, Rachel Basch, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Philip Fried, Shaun Griffin, Andrey Gritsman, Richard Hoffman, Howard Levy, Dawn Potter, […]

Fifth meeting of the Infinite Jest Monthly Read-Along Bash group. Read pages 508-601 (plus relevant endnotes) for this month's gathering. We'll have free drinks upstairs when you arrive :) .

Book reading and signing by Danielle Girard, author of Pinky Swear.

­Small plastic things forgotten, to riff on historical archaeologist James Deetz, are born from scientific innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. As a case study, I consider the ubiquitous though taken for granted polyethylene T-shirt bag. Low-cost, convenience, and durability are some reasons it is accorded utilitarian value. But at what price, in what kind of conditions, […]

Book reading and signing by John Shepphird.

Book reading and signing by Karen E. Olson, author of A Defiant Woman.

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the nation’s founding. Join historian Robert Watson for this talk exploring some of the fun and intriguing stories behind the stories as well as common myths and misconceptions about both remarkable events.

Between 1986 and 1990, New York City seemed to be on the rebound from the fiscal collapse of the 1970s. But beneath the surface, the city was coming apart at the seams. Racial conflict, the AIDS epidemic, widening inequality, media sensationalism and political realignment were tearing at its civic fabric. Out of that turbulence, the […]

Andrew Martin presents his novel Down Time, in conversation with Halle Butler. A terribly funny and lovably louche novel about five friends growing older, if not always up, from the author of Early Work and Cool for America.

Book reading and signing by author Elizabeth Crowens.

Hooman Majd presents his memoir Minister Without Portfolio, in conversation with Ann Curry. The son of a high-ranking diplomat in pre-Revolutionary Iran, Hooman Majd grew up in the upper echelons of Iranian society and in cosmopolitan diplomatic enclaves in San Francisco, London, and Washington, DC. As a young man, after Ayatollah Khomeini's Revolution in 1979, […]

Book reading and signing by authors Susan Walter and Wendy Walker in conversation with Kristin Thorvaldsen.

From two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod, a searching, brilliantly stylized memoir about a charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image, the many secrets he hid, the son’s obsessive quest to uncover them, and ultimately, the true meaning of manhood

Writer and organizer Kay Gabriel focuses on the cult-favorite downtown poet Bernadette Mayer’s maximalism, frequently expressed in her compulsion to write “everything.”

McNally Editions presents An Awfully Big Adventure, featuring Yiyun Li and Iva Dixit. A blackly comic story of the secrets, sex, and violence behind the curtain of a repertory theater's postwar production of Peter Pan.

A psychosexual relationship between a rabbi and the man devoted to him goes off the rails in this explosive novel. Wayne Koestenbaum presents My Lover, the Rabbi, in conversation with Morgan Bassichis.

Book reading and signing by author Benjamin Stevenson.

Celebrate the launch of Dear Letters in the Red Box (Kelsay Books, 2026) by Sarah Stern. Stern describes her collection, saying: “Through recently discovered letters and writings, I explore my parents’ years in Paris between 1946 and 1951.

An astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation. Ian Buruma presents Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945, in conversation with Daniel Kehlmann.

A gifted yet financially disadvantaged artist falls victim to the manipulative control of his wealthy, enigmatic Harvard roommate in this incendiary novel from the author of Beautiful Country—a piercing exploration of class, ambition, identity, and the perilous cost of reinvention in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith and Donna Tartt. J.R. Thornton presents his novel Lucien, […]

Meeting of an LGBTQ+ writing group. Open to all.

Seventh meeting of the Infinite Jest Monthly Read-Along Bash group. Read pages 602-716 (plus relevant endnotes) for this month's gathering.

Book reading and signing by author Steve Cavanagh.

Book reading and signing by author Rob Osler.

Edward Hirsch, Carlie Hoffman, and Yerra Sugarman will present a lecture on Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924–1942), a poet, translator, and librettist from Czernowitz (present-day Chernivtsi, Ukraine).