Events - March, 11, 2013

Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

The author of the international best-selling novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit tackles her own reality in her riveting memoir. In this remarkable book she confronts...

History/NYC

Living With Guns: A Liberal's Case For The Second Amendment

This illustated lecture reexamines America’s relationship with guns, showing how guns are an important part of American culture. The earliest colonists needed them to survive....

Books

Mohsin Hamid - How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Performing Arts/Film

Words On Dance: Edward Villella

The San Francisco–based Words On Dance interview series returns to New York in this newest collaboration with the Paley Center. Join us for an evening...

Performing Arts/Film

Playwrights of the Chinese World: Hong Kong, New York, Shanghai, Taipei

Part of the Contemporary Chinese Playwright Series: Signature's Residency One Playwright David Henry Hwang will be joined by Chi Wei-jan, Meng Jinghui, Candance Chong andNick Yu — playwrights from across the Chinese...

Books

Sabine Heinlein - Among Murderers: Life after Prison

Heinlein provides an incomparable perspective on a pressing public policy issue, and offers a poignant view into a rarely seen social setting.

Legal/Politics/Economics, Books

Ira Katznelson - Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

History and political science professor Ira Katznelson discusses his book about the New Deal that examines in a fresh way its contradictory legacy for modern...

Books

A Night With McSweeney's

With Sheila Heti and Amy Fusselman.

Food & Drink

Food, Justice, and Restaurants

Restaurants are ubiquitous, but few of us reflect on the number of workers and the labor issues involved in the industry. How well does the...

History/NYC

The Measure of Manhattan: The Surprising Legacy of John Randel Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor

With Science Journalist Marguerite Holloway ’88JRN. In the early 1800s, John Randel Jr. surveyed rural Manhattan and laid the grid plan on the island. Come listen to Holloway talk about this...