Daniel Wortel-London will discuss his new book, The Menace of Prosperity: Economic Development and its Discontents in New York City, 1870–1981, which explores how generations of New Yorkers have struggled with the promises and perils of economic development. Spanning New York City’s post–Civil War boom to the 1970s fiscal crisis, Wortel-London will reveal how NYC’s […]

Chicago’s tallest skyscraper when it opened in 1921, the Wrigley Building could be called the Midwest’s Woolworth Building. The gleaming white terra-cotta tower at the head of Michigan Avenue marked a move that opened the northward extension of the commercial concentration of the Loop. To celebrate the publication of the handsome new monograph The Wrigley […]

Book reading and signing by Jonathan Payne, author of Hotel Melikov.

Krithika Varagur, Rob Franklin, Sloane Crosley, and Zain Khalid in conversation about Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume III. On the publication day of the highly-anticipated third installment of Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume, four writers discuss their love for the Danish literary sensation and speculate on what might come next.

From underground soldiers to intrepid spies, Women of War unearths the hidden history of the brave women who risked their lives to overthrow the Nazi occupation and liberate Italy. Using primary sources and brand new scholarship, historian Suzanne Cope illuminates the roles played by women – working as couriers, taking up arms as combattants, helping […]

Global bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann’s new book The Director is “powerful and timely” (Jonathan Lemire for MSNBC’S Morning Joe) and “nothing short of brilliant” (Wall Street Journal). G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and […]

Book reading and signing by Michael Mayo, author of The Spies in Jimmy's Place.