In The Sweetness of Water: A Novel, Nathan Harris shares the story of brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in the waning days of the Civil War and seeking refuge – and the means to make their way north to reunite with the mother who was sold away when they were boys. …
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Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir chronicles the remarkable story of Stevie Van Zandt, guitarist of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, leader of Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, actor (including a memorable run as consigliere Silvio Dante in The Sopranos), and political and arts activist. Moderated by writer and filmmaker Bill Teck. Sponsored by In partnership with
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 is a collection of Salman Rushdie’s nonfiction, essays, criticism, and speeches focusing on his relationship with the written word, from delving into the nature of storytelling as a human need to the work of Eudora Welty. Moderated by author and journalist Carl Hiaasen.
In 1991, Anita F. Hill offered landmark testimony against soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace. Her Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence is part memoir, part law and social analysis, and a call to arms which addresses the origins and course of gender violence in our society. Moderated by …
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Published in 2015 and reissued now with new material and an introduction by Samantha Irby, Jessica Hopper’s The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic is a rallying cry for women-centered history and storytelling. It includes profiles and reviews of some of the most-loved and most-loathed women making music today. Moderated by …
In Love of My Life: A Memoir, Barbara Mailer Wasserman shares more of her incredible life. A classical pianist and Radcliffe College graduate who opted to work as a secretary rather than teach, she writes of skewering Randolph Churchill, smuggling fascist dictator Francisco Franco’s political prisoners across the French border in 1948, and hearing the …
Drawing upon 25 years of experience representing Black youth in the juvenile courts of Washington, D.C., Georgetown professor Kristin Henning analyzes the foundations of racist policing in America in The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth. In the process, she makes a compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing began with …
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In A Confederacy of Dumptys: Portraits of American Scoundrels in Verse, actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow, with cutting humor, offers a rogues’ gallery of American villains, powerful men and women who were corrupt, venal, criminal, adulterous, racist, or just plain disgusting.
Dawn Turner’s memoir Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood is about three Black women – Turner, her younger sister Kim, and her best friend, Debra – friends since childhood. In examining their fates, the author offers an exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the forces that allow …
Mindfulness doesn’t have to be an individualistic solution to our challenges. In Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World, Shelly Tygielski argues that mindfulness can also be a powerful tool for spurring profound social change by going inward. Moderated by Arianna Huffington, author and founder of The Huffington Post.
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker is a collection of the venerated magazine's writing on race in America. Spanning a century, this anthology edited by Jelani Cobb and David Remnick brings together contributions by writers such as James Baldwin, Elizabeth Alexander, Hilton Als, Vinson Cunningham, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Malcolm …
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Merissa Nathan Gerson’s Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman’s Guide to Grieving is a relatable account of one woman’s reckoning with loss, and a guide to the world of self-recovery, self-love, and the skills necessary to meet one's own needs in times of pain – especially when that pain is suffered alone.