Talks & Entertainment

Ezra Klein

In Conversation with Jamelle Bouie

In Why We’re Polarized, the editor-at-large and cofounder of Vox reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction and what that polarization has done to the way we see the world and one another.

Guest House

Film Screening

This feature documentary follows the stories of three women in a re-entry house as they attempt to acclimate to life after being released from incarceration and battling addiction. A Q&A with co-director Hannah Dweck and others connected to the film follows the screening.

Diane Rehm

In Conversation with Kojo Nnamdi

In When My Time Comes, the renowned radio host examines the right-to-die movement from human, medical, legal, and ethical perspectives, and explores the arguments both for and against the issue.

Paul Krugman

In Conversation with Heather Boushey

In Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future, the Nobel Prize–winning economist offers an accessible and compelling introduction to today’s major policy issues within the context of a wider debate in the 2020 election year.

Diane Keaton

In Conversation with Heather Moran

Keaton and her brother Randy were close at a young age, until Randy became troubled and reclusive, leading a life away from his sister’s and their family. Brother & Sister contemplates the inner workings of families and the bond between siblings, even when pulled far apart.

Dan Pfeiffer

In Conversation with Jennifer Palmieri

President Obama’s former communications director, the co-host of “Pod Save America,” and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can offers a political playbook for fixing our democracy with Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again.

Dr. Mark Hyman

In Conversation with Congressman Tim Ryan

Pairing the latest developments in nutritional and environmental science with an unflinching look at the dark realities of the global food system, Food Fix provides solutions for citizens, businesses, and policy makers to create a healthier world, society, and planet.

POSTPONED: Hilary Mantel

In Conversation with Barrie Hardymon

With The Mirror & the Light, the Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies closes out her Thomas Cromwell trilogy with a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, and of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion, and courage.

LIVE-STREAM: Esther Safran Foer

In Conversation with Franklin Foer

The debut memoir by Sixth & I’s former CEO, I Want You to Know We’re Still Here is the story of Esther’s journey to piece together a mystery from her family’s past and of four generations living in the shadow of the Holocaust.

CANCELED: Robert Reich

From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good comes The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, an urgent analysis of how the “rigged” systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change.