Events - February, 25, 2013

Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid’s new novel is See Now Then. “Her writing is a shared plenitude, a promise of more where that came from,” wrote Ian Frazier. She is...

Religion/Spirituality, History/NYC

Esther Imagined: The Art and History of Decorated Megillot

The highly dramatic and complex story of Purim lends itself to artistic representation. Elka Deitsch, senior curator of the Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica will present...

Performing Arts/Film

Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar

With Peter Benjaminson, the author of "The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard." Complete with never-before-revealed details about the sex, violence, and drugs...

Science/Tech/Health

Adam Phillips

Psychoanalyst and essayist Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored, will explore the nature of frustration in a conversation with PaulHoldengräber.

History/NYC

Arnold Bernstein and Gerd Bucerius

When the transatlantic shipping pioneer Arnold Bernstein became one of the first targets of the Nazi expropriation of Jews, lawyer and publisher Gerd Bucerius defended...

Books

Randy Susan Meyers - The Comfort of Lies: A Novel

Brooklyn native Randy Susan Meyers reads from and signs copies of her latest novel which deals with the intersection of lives following an ill-fated romance...

Books