Take a tour of the dark and uncomfortable corners of criminal minds! In Ed Brubaker’s Cruel Summer, sons follow fathers down the same hopeless criminal paths. Julia Gfrorer’s Vision: Book 1 introduces readers to a Victorian spinster on the path to blindness, as she navigates her mysterious and demanding family while finding sexual solace in […]
Self-care is more important than ever in a pandemic, and this discussion has something for everyone tuning in! Tyler Feder (Dancing at the Pity Party), A. Andrews (A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex & Disability), Vivian Chong (Dancing After TEN), and Lucy Sullivan (Barking) are here to speak comforting and lively truth to accessible […]
LIVE! Event starts Friday, November 20 @ 6 p.m. Two sisters present their latest works in a conversation informed by the dynamic of the familiar. Louise Erdrich’s novel The Night Watchman explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity. It's a fictional world populated by memorable characters forced to grapple with the […]
The ideal of American democracy fits neatly in the framework of our Constitution, like a perfectly centered portrait entitled We The People. But when the frame is hung askew, it gets tough to read – thankfully, we have pictures to follow along with! In Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy, Dan Newman and George […]
Aaron Davidson’s documentary films on Jewish themes have all been created in South Florida, but transcend their local flavor and are at once familiar and nostalgic. With the passage of time his earliest films have become both historical records and time capsules, documenting places that have since closed or become unrecognizable and now live on […]
Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Lenny Kravitz reflects on the first 25 years of his life in his new autobiography, Let Love Rule, the timeline of which culminates in the release of his first studio album, which shares the book’s title. Kravitz muses over duality – he grew up the son of Black Caribbean actress […]
In Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think, David Litt, a longtime speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, argues that the democracy in which we live in today is completely different from the democracy in which were born into, and offers […]
Program + LIVE Q&A! Starts @ 7:30 p.m. EST. Democratic candidates may take the Hispanic vote for granted at their own peril. In The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump, Geraldo Cadava, associate professor of history and Latina and Latino studies at Northwestern University, offers insights into the […]
Live program + Q&A! Starts @ 6:30 p.m. EST. In Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther, Craig Pittman recounts the extraordinary story of the people who brought the Sunshine State’s panther back from the brink of extinction, the ones who nearly pushed the species over the edge, and the cats […]
Program + LIVE Q&A! Starts @ 5:30 p.m. EST. In Separated: Inside An American Tragedy, NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff lays bare the full truth behind the Trump administration’s systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico border. It’s a searing and heartbreaking account of atrocities emotional, mental, and physical. How, exactly, had such […]
Future of Democracy X Miami Book Fair: Knight Foundation’s Sam Gill unwraps a lesser-known truth of American history with Candacy Taylor, author of Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America. Taylor shares her historical expertise on what the “Green Book” meant for Black Americans and how the concept of sundown towns have evolved in […]
Future of Democracy X Miami Book Fair: As we tread the depths of one of the most intense periods of political unrest this country has ever seen, Knight Foundation’s Sam Gill discusses The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III with its authors, Susan Glasser and Peter Baker. The two political journalists share their thoughts on how […]