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 in the Poets House stacks and stitch them together into centos. Then, we’ll turn to a selection of writing prompts collated in a printed chapbook, […]

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 it—a memoir built on fabrications. Now the bestselling author of Eighty Days shares their incredible, never-before-told full story. Etta Shiber and Kate Bonnefous are the […]

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 investigating the political wreckage all around her. Rabble rouser, chess enthusiast, passionate advocate for peace and the abolition of soup, Mafalda made her debut in […]

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 they knew. Not until December 1942 did Allied governments issue a joint statement about Nazi Germany’s policy of exterminating the Jews of Europe. Roosevelt deferred […]

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. Forman, author of Dr. Joseph Warren -The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty, followed by an optional dinner.

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, and the Gilded Age. This program will feature a lecture by Mike Duncan, one of the foremost history podcasters in the world and the author […]

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 an afternoon about infrastructure how it developed and what is planned in the future as we move to a carbon neutral city. Please join cultureNOW, […]

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 story of prejudice and integration, difference and connection. Many had spectacular art collections and gardens. Some were stages for lavish entertaining, while others inspired the […]

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 a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just eleven when the Nazis invaded and he and his family were forced to move into the […]