This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. In Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus, Les Standiford brings to life a remarkable era when James Bailey, P.T. Barnum, and John Ringling vied for control of the profitable […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. From the late Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) and his co-author and collaborator Andrew Aydin comes Run: Book One, the first installment of a powerful new graphic novel series focusing on the struggle for civil rights and the personal story of Lewis, one […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges’ Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison chronicles in heartbreaking detail the process by which his students in East Jersey State Prison wrote a play that gave words to the grief and suffering they and […]
In A Matter of Trust: India-US Relations from Truman to Trump, Indian-born journalist Meenakshi Ahamed reveals the personal prejudices and insecurities of the leaders, and the political imperatives, of India and the United States that so often cast a shadow over their relationship. Moderated by author Mamta Chaudhry.
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. The first issue of the Fantastic Four by legendary creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced fans to a now-iconic team of superheroes – Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Human Torch, and the Thing – ushering in the modern Marvel Age […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. After a decade abroad championing America’s foundational moral commitments – the rule of law, the power of truth, and the right of equal opportunity for all – Evan Osnos returned to find that each of these principles was under assault. Reported over […]
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. Drawing on interviews with President Jimmy Carter and members of his administration as well as recently declassified documents, historian and journalist Kai Bird offers a substantial reevaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Carter’s legacy in The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency […]
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock, an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, is a timely account of how a war that began in 2001 with straightforward, clear goals and near-unanimous public support devolved into a colossal failure.
This event is being livestreamed from MDC's Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com. In her graphic nonfiction book Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, Kristen Radtke explores and meditates on isolation and longing, both as individuals and society. Fresh from earning a Ph.D. in biology, Catherine Raven built a tiny cottage on an isolated […]
Transcript in English available on http://www.sosyetekoukouy.org/koukouy-tv In Batailles électorales et crises politiques en Haïti (1807-1957)/Electoral Battles and Political Crises in Haiti (1807-1957)(C3Editions), historian Victor “Master Ben” Benoît traces the political and social vulnerability of a country in the chokehold of political crises and electoral battles, starting with its independence in 1804 and ending with President François […]
Transcript in English available on http://www.sosyetekoukouy.org/koukouy-tv First published in French in 1996, later published in English, revised and augmented in 1999, Patrick Lemoine’s (Haiti) Fort-Dimanche, Fort-La-Mort/Fort Dimanche, Dungeon of Death is a poignant testimony of his years spent in the jails of Fort-Dimanche under the regime of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. It bears witness to the […]
Transcript in English available on http://www.sosyetekoukouy.org/koukouy-tv In his memoir Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming, Antonio Michael Downing (Trinidad) traces the arc, through loss and displacement, of his search for identity, from a boy in a tiny village in the tropical forests of Trinidad raised by his religious grandmother, to becoming a “Saga Boy” […]