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.