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Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America

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...

Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America

Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America

Popular belief holds that the various ethnic groups that emigrated to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century regarded one another...

An Exploration of Mysticism with Mirabai Starr

An Exploration of Mysticism with Mirabai Starr

Author Mirabai Starr will share wisdom from her new book, Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground, which challenges readers to discover the...

New Works: John Shoptaw & Jenny Odell

New Works: John Shoptaw & Jenny Odell

Celebrate John Shoptaw‘s collection Near-Earth Object (Unbound Edition Press, 2024) with readings and a conversation between Shoptaw and Jenny...

Screen/Print: The Poet Speaks with Amanda Eke: Screening and Discussion

Screen/Print: The Poet Speaks with Amanda Eke: Screening and Discussion

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...

Julian Zabalbeascoa presents What We Tried to Bury Grows Here

Julian Zabalbeascoa presents What We Tried to Bury Grows Here

A masterly crafted and haunting tale of survival, longing, and empathy, set during the Spanish Civil War.

Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense

Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense

Book reading by author Joyce Carol Oates.

Faces of Ground Zero: A Conversation with Joe McNally

Faces of Ground Zero: A Conversation with Joe McNally

Award-winning photographer Joe McNally’s "Faces of Ground Zero: Portraits of the Heroes of September 11, 2001" is comprised of 246 large-scale...

Crosswords: Carmen Boullosa, Jicky Schnee, and Samantha Schnee

Crosswords: Carmen Boullosa, Jicky Schnee, and Samantha Schnee

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...

The Modern Concrete Skyscraper: Translations in Concrete: Montreal’s Place Victoria

The Modern Concrete Skyscraper: Translations in Concrete: Montreal’s Place Victoria

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,...

BPC Book Club

BPC Book Club

Discussion of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie.

The Collaborators

The Collaborators

Book reading by author Michael Idov.

The History of Antisemitism: Mendel Beilis

The History of Antisemitism: Mendel Beilis

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...