In A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease, writer and gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella investigates hidden inflammation’s emerging role as a common root of modern disease – and how we can prevent, treat, or even reverse it. Using fascinating case studies, Ravella reveals how we can reform our relationships with food and our […]
Register to join livestream. Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s work, Hillary Chute’s Maus Now: Selected Writings gathers responses to the work from many of contemporary culture’s leading critics, authors, and academics, including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, and Ruth Franklin. More than 40 years after its first publication, they and others examine the work’s […]
In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity, leading theoretical physicist and cosmologist Antonio Padilla offers an irreverent cosmic tour of nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, offering a startling picture of how the universe works – and how mathematical truths have led to new understandings […]
On November 4, 2019, a caravan of women and children was ambushed on a desolate road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Nine people died; five were gravely injured. They were fundamentalist Mormons, members of the LeBaron and La Mora communities. And in The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land, […]
Calling all lovers of indie bookstores for a Miami Book Fair two-part event: A screening of a new literary documentary and a panel of the nation’s foremost independent booksellers! In 2019, Mason Engel took a road trip around the country to 50 independent bookstores in 50 days. His goal: to promote his self-published novel, 2084. […]
When Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: “What is gender?” The obsession sparked a quest in which they eagerly approached friends and strangers in their quiet Midwest town for interviews to turn into comics. A decade later, Fine: A Comic About Gender now presents a sweeping portrait of […]
El diplomático y periodista Luis Alberto Moreno ha sido ministro de Desarrollo Económico de Colombia, embajador en Estados Unidos por siete años y presidente del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID). En esta oportunidad presenta su libro ¡Vamos!, en el que propone siete ideas para lograr una América Latina próspera y justa. Moisés Naím, escritor y […]
Juanes, músico y compositor colombiano aplaudido por masas en todos los continentes, conversa con el periodista y escritor Diego Londoño en la presentación de Juanes, un libro que refleja la carrera del cantautor, pero también su manera de entender la vida, de amar la música y de percibir la familia, justo cuando está a punto […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream, written by Katherine Manning, Tung Nguyen, and Lyn Nguyen – the chefs and principals behind the storied Hy Vong Vietnamese restaurant in Miami – is a powerful memoir […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Talia, the protagonist of Patricia Engel’s Infinite Country: A Novel, is being held at a correctional facility in Colombia. Her father and a plane ticket to the U.S. are waiting for her back home in Bogotá. And her story, a tale of […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. In Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown revisits the case of justice-a-la-carte for the billionaire title subject in his case of soliciting prostitution from minors. Her resulting series helped bring about the arrest of […]
Captioning and Audience Q&A: To access the live-captioning option and/or submit questions for the audience Q&A, please join using the Zoom link and passcode you received in your ticket confirmation email. In Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could, Congressman Adam Schiff posits that the Trump presidency has so weakened […]