Events - March, 5, 2013

Getting To Optimal Health: Go With Your Gut - Steven Lamm, MD

One of the biggest factors in determining overall health involves the gastrointestinal system and the important bodily functions it controls. Not only does it regulate...

Food & Drink

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

Dr. Jessica B. Harris, esteemed culinary historian, journalist, consultant, tenured professor of English, is the author of eleven cookbooks documenting the foods and foodways of...

History/NYC

MAKERS: The Women Who Make America - Gloria Steinem, Dyllan McGee, Amy Richards

Makers, a forthcoming PBS documentary and current oral history project, amplifies the contribution trailblazing women have made to America, past and present. From Oprah Winfrey...

Performing Arts/Film

Tablet Talk: Miri Ben-Ari

Miri Ben-Ari, the Hip-Hop Violinist, talks to Tablet editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse about her life and inspirations. A violin prodigy, she studied with Isaac Stern in...

Books

Tom Coughlin - Earn the Right to Win: How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior Preparation

Legal/Politics/Economics, History/NYC

Love and Capital: Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

Drawing on previously unpublished material, Mary Gabriel tells the tale of Karl and Jenny Marx’s marriage, recounting their story against the backdrop of Europe’s 19th...

Performing Arts/Film, Books

Rita Moreno

The incomparable singer, dancer, and actress - and Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Oscar winner -- Rita Moreno celebrates the release of her highly-anticipated memoir.

Science/Tech/Health, Food & Drink

The Future of Food

What are the hidden forces that shape what we eat? How will biotechnology and trade change our food systems in the future? Are genetically modified...

Books

Sam Lipsyte - The Fun Parts

Lipsyte at his best—an exploration of new voices and vistas. A hilarious collection of stories from the writer The New York Times called “the novelist...

Books

Agata Tuszynska - Vera Gran: The Accused

Plumbing the depths of archives and interviewing Warsaw ghetto survivors, Agata Tuszynska puts together a fascinating story of the complicated Polish singing star Vera Gran....

Books

Cecile David-Weill - The Suitors

Books

Call It Sleep by Henry Roth

Told through the consciousness of an adolescent boy, Roth's modernist masterpiece evokes the brutishness of working class immigrant life in a turn of the century...

Books

In Conversation: Jessica Francis Kane & Susan Steinberg

Jessica Francis Kane (This Close) and Susan Steinberg (Spectacle) will read from their new short story collections and talk about the points of connection in them. The event...