Talks & Entertainment

Davóne Tines, bass-baritone

Lester Green, piano

In this recital with piano maestro Lester Green, the bass-baritone grounds his program in the ordinarium of the Roman Catholic Mass, juxtaposing the music of Bach with contemporary settings by Caroline Shaw, Tyshawn Sorey, and others.

VIRTUAL: Reshma Saujani

In Conversation with Sally Buzbee

In Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It’s Different Than You Think), Girls Who Code founder and bestselling author of Brave, Not Perfect confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a plan for innovative corporate leadership, government intervention, and sweeping culture shift.

Russell Howard

One of the U.K.’s most successful stand-up comedians, Howard brings his trademark blend of upbeat musings and razor-sharp wit.

CANCELED: Kae Tempest

The Mercury Prize-nominated artist, poet, and playwright performs from their fourth album, The Line is a Curve, letting go of anxiety and isolation and embracing the cyclical nature of time, growth, and love.

Tieghan Gerard

In Conversation with Joe Yonan

In Half Baked Harvest Every Day: Recipes for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals, the New York Times bestselling author delivers more than 120 all-new, soul-satisfying recipes.

Jenna Bush Hager

In Conversation with Alex Elle

On the occasion of the paperback release of Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss, settle in with “Today” show co-anchor Jenna Bush Hager as she shares personal stories and laughs in celebration of all of the complicated, messy, and hilarious moments of life.

Emily St. John Mandel

In Conversation with Maureen Corrigan

The bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with Sea of Tranquility, a novel of art, time, love, and plague spanning centuries and space from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later.

Ocean Vuong

In Conversation with Kat Chow

From the author of the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and critically-acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, comes Time Is a Mother, a deeply intimate poetry collection that finds Vuong searching for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death.

Jonathan Van Ness

In Conversation with Chasten Buttigieg

From the New York Times bestselling author of Over the Top and grooming expert on Netflix’s “Queer Eye” comes the candid and curious essay collection, Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life.

VIRTUAL: Susan Cain

In Conversation with Daniel Pink

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Quiet comes Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, revealing the power of a bittersweet, melancholic outlook on life and why we’ve been so blind to its value.