Talks & Entertainment

Salman Rushdie

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a tale about the way we live now, blending history, mythology, and a timeless love story to bring alive a world – our world – that has been plunged into an age of unreason.

Richard Nisbett

In Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell

In Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking, the world-renowned psychologist presents scientific and philosophical ideas in clear and accessible detail, offering a tool kit to make better professional and personal decisions.

Elizabeth Gilbert

In Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Gilbert digs deep into her own generative process to explain where inspiration comes from, how ideas form and grow, and how to overcome the fears that inevitably arise when we push at boundaries and take a leap into the unknown.

David Gregory

In How’s Your Faith: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey, the former NBC newsman, raised by a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, probes various religious traditions to better understand
his own faith and answer life’s most important questions: who do we want to be and what do we believe?

Anne-Marie Slaughter

In Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family, the president and CEO of New America presents her vision for what true equality between men and women really means, and how we can get there.

Cécile McLorin Salvant – Early Show

Singing in English, French, and Spanish, Cécile McLorin Salvant enchants her audiences with fresh and dramatic interpretations of standards and lesser-known gems from the early days of jazz and blues.

Cécile McLorin Salvant – Late Show

Singing in English, French, and Spanish, Cécile McLorin Salvant enchants her audiences with fresh and dramatic interpretations of standards and lesser-known gems from the early days of jazz and blues.

Ben Bernanke

In Conversation with Judy Woodruff

The Courage to Act recounts and explains the worst financial crisis and economic slump in America since the Great Depression, providing an insider’s account of the policy response.

Man’s Attempt at Thoughtfulness: How to be Good

How do you gauge if you are the kind of ethical and moral man you aspire to be? And if you feel like you’re falling short, what do you do to fix it? Rabbi Scott brings a group of men together to attempt some thoughtfulness about what it takes to be good.

Individual World Poetry Slam Finals

The Individual World Poetry Slam Finals is the culmination of a four-day poetry slam festival created by Poetry Slam Incorporated, giving poets an opportunity to compete on an individual basis.