Talks & Entertainment

Jonathan Safran Foer

In Conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg

Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks, in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis.

Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz

In Conversation with Jessica Sidman

The co-founders of The Gefilteria, a company that reimagines and produces Ashkenazi Jewish food, present more than 100 recipes from the kitchens of Eastern Europe and the diaspora of North America in The Gefilte Manifesto.

Ian McEwan

In Conversation with Richard McCann

Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit by McEwan, whose works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim.

Maureen Dowd

In Conversation with Leon Wieseltier

In The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics, the New York Times columnist traces the psychologies and pathologies of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during this disruptive and divisive campaign season.

Norm Macdonald

In Conversation with Geoff Edgers

In Based on a True Story, the actor, comedian, and former SNL Weekend Update anchor recounts his origins, milestones, love-affairs and regrets in a memoir punctuated with classic jokes and mythologized Hollywood stories.

Get Carded

Create hand-made greeting cards to send well wishes for 5777 to friends and family at this interactive workshop. Sip on holiday-themed craft cocktails and meet other like-minded crafty connoisseurs.

Andy Zaltzman: Satirist For Hire

The comedian takes “Satirist for Hire” on the road, addressing audience queries, complaints, demands, and general gripes in his unique satirical stand-up show.

Alan Cumming

In Conversation with Ari Shapiro

In You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life is Stories and Pictures, the award-winning stage, television, and film actor and man-about-town shares forty-five wildly entertaining real-life stories.

An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates

In Conversation with Iris Deroeux

Coates, a national correspondent at The Atlantic, MacArthur Fellow, and the author of Between the World and Me, for which he won a National Book Award, offers reflections on American culture, race, and politics.

Sorry, Not Sorry

For women in their 20s and 30s

Approaching the High Holidays, a time when we ask for forgiveness, Rabbi Suzy leads an interactive conversation about when women should be sorry, or not sorry, and what Jewish texts can add to our modern understanding of being a woman.