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New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts & Blooms

New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts & Blooms

New York City, arguably the world’s Art Deco capital, is well known for its iconic towers. In a new book, New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts &...

The Entrepreneurs: The Relentless Quest for Value

The Entrepreneurs: The Relentless Quest for Value

Lunchtime talk. Entrepreneurs are among the primary shapers of our culture, yet their role in driving progress and influencing society has often been...

Love Brought Me Through the Holocaust: Stories Survive with Judith Koeppel Steel

Love Brought Me Through the Holocaust: Stories Survive with Judith Koeppel Steel

Judith Koeppel Steel was born in Berlin, Germany at the beginning of World War II. Her family escaped Germany in 1939 aboard the MS St. Louis, only...

“The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million” with Daniel Mendelsohn and Francine Prose

“The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million” with Daniel Mendelsohn and Francine Prose

Fifteen years after the release of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Jewish Book Award winner, The Lost: A Search for Six of...

Jennifer Egan and Melissa Maxwell

Jennifer Egan and Melissa Maxwell

Novelist Jennifer Egan in conversation with Melissa Maxwell

John Freeman Presents Freeman’s: Animals, with Samiya Bashir and Tess Gunty

John Freeman Presents Freeman’s: Animals, with Samiya Bashir and Tess Gunty

Featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Martín Espada, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more, the latest installment of the...

Pen Parentis

Pen Parentis

Ami Sands Brodoff, Jennifer Steil and Alice Kaltman read from their work during this month's virtual salon. The theme: sexuality.

Shut Up and Keep Talking: Lessons on Life and Investing from the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Shut Up and Keep Talking: Lessons on Life and Investing from the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Bob Pisani has spent the past 25 years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He has been on the front line of finance for all the major events...

China’s LGBT Community: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back?

China’s LGBT Community: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back?

Before 2001, homosexuality was considered a psychiatric disorder and needed to be treated in China. In 2009, Shanghai Pride became the first and...

Sharon Olds Presents Balladz

Sharon Olds Presents Balladz

Poet Sharon Olds in conversation with Sarah Ruhl.

Poor Richard’s Women: An Intimate Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard’s Women: An Intimate Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

In this lecture, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion...

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm

Reading. An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and...