Books
“Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes” Podcast Tour
The Town Hall 123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY, United StatesMSNBC’s Chris Hayes will record his podcast “Why Is This Happening?” in front of a live audience at The Town Hall in New York City. Chris will be joined by special guests Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America, and Jeremy O. Harris, actor and playwright of Slave Play. They’ll engage in […]
Mikhal Dekel, the Flight East: WW2 Refugees in Tashkent, Tehran and Tel Aviv
CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesBeginning in September 1941 and throughout the war, Central Asia and Iran became places of refuge to hundreds of thousands of Jewish and Catholic Polish citizens. Mikhal Dekel, whose father was a child refugee in Tehran, will recount the research and writing process of this epic yet relatively unknown Holocaust story, told in her new […]
Don’t Be Evil: Rana Foroohar
New York Public Library 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesIn the early days, when Google was a scrappy upstart with a utopian vision of transforming the world for the better through tech, its mantra was “Don’t be evil.” But they and other behemoths of the tech world—including Amazon, Facebook, and Apple—have long since abandoned their founding principles in the name of monetizing both our […]
The Life of a Professional Glutton: Adam Platt
Asia Society and Museum 725 Park Ave., New York, NY, United StatesHow did Adam Platt, restaurant critic for New York magazine, land “the best job in the 20th century”: a professional glutton? Join Platt as he discusses his new memoir The Book of Eating and recounts a life of globetrotting and his adventures in professional gluttony in a conversation with Ambassador Nicholas Platt, president emeritus of Asia Society. This wide-ranging chat between […]
Thomas More’s Utopia
Using Thomas More's Utopia as our foundation, we'll examine our own state of mental and emotional health in present day society during this living room Olio event with professor Patricia Kim. Why does the future look so bleak? And what does that have to do with the state of our individual and collective mental health? […]