Talks & Entertainment

Daniel Silva

In Conversation with Wolf Blitzer

Daniel Silva, the prolific #1 New York Times bestselling spy novelist, continues his long-running thriller series starring spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon with Portrait of an Unknown Woman, a spellbinding account of a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived.

Michael Pollan

In Conversation with Ari Shapiro

In the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Mind on Plants—now out in paperback—Pollan radically challenges the way we think about all drugs, from psychedelics to tea and coffee, and explores the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants and their equally powerful taboos.

How to Design Your Best Online Dating Profile

With Logan Ury, Director of Relationship Science at Hinge

In this one-hour workshop, Logan Ury—behavioral scientist, dating coach, and Director of Relationship Science at Hinge—will share how to build a profile that represents you in a flattering and accurate way for your best first impression. From which photos are no-go’s to the wild world of voice prompts, you’ll leave with concrete tips to create a more matchable profile.

Logan Ury

In Conversation with Rabbi Aaron Potek

In How to Not Die Alone, Logan Ury—behavioral scientist, dating coach, and Director of Relationship Science at Hinge—draws on years of research to reveal the hidden forces that cause those mistakes and lays out how to change your behavior to achieve real results.

VIRTUAL: Henry Kissinger

In Conversation with Andrea Mitchell

In Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, the former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford examines six twentieth-century leaders through the distinctive strategies of statecraft and brings to life a unifying theory of leadership and diplomacy.

Mohsin Hamid

In Conversation with Wajahat Ali

From the New York Times bestselling author of Exit West comes The Last White Man, which follows the events set in motion when a man named Anders wakes up one day to find that his skin has suddenly turned dark, raising provocative questions about race, identity, and tribalism in a radically changing world.

Calum Scott

With Special Guest Jamie Miller

The U.K.-based singer-songwriter follows up the success of his chart-topping debut album Only Human with a new evolution of his artistry, infusing even more raw emotion into his soulful and timeless sound.

Letter Writing with VoteRiders

VoteRiders will train volunteers on the importance of combating confusion around state voter ID laws and share best practices for letter-writing to provide voters with the ID information and assistance they need to ensure their votes count.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

In Conversation with Tope Folarin

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature comes Afterlives, which is a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of East Africa and illuminating a legacy of dislocation that is still with us today.

Randall Munroe

In Conversation with Derek Thompson

For the answers to the rest of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask, the New York Times bestselling author is back with What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.