Library Talks
Join The New York Public Library and your favorite writers, artists, and thinkers for smart talks and provocative conversations from the nation’s cultural capital.
Episodes
Bestselling author and historian Russell Shorto talks to Aidan Flax-Clark about his latest book, Read more
Acclaimed poet Haleh Liza Gafori discusses her latest translations of Rumi's lyric poetry in<...
Economist and writer Chris Hughes talks to Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Allowa about his latest ...
On this special episode of Library Talks, we speak with Mike Hixenbaugh, winner of the 38th annual Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, for his book They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms.
News anchor Vicky Nguyen talks to Tracey Nguyen Mang about her new memoir, Read more
Michelin-starred chef José Andrés talks to Gail Simmons about his latest book, Read more
American historian Timothy Snyder presents his lecture Read more
Film critic Alissa Wilkinson talks to Aidan Flax-Clark about her latest book, We Tell Ourselves Stories.
Historian Edna Bonhomme talks to Linda Villarosa about her latest book, Read more
Artist Hamid Rahmanian speaks with translator Ahmad Sadri and producer Melissa Hibbard about ...
Cookbook Author Lisa Kyung Gross is joined by Yael Raviv and Abi Balingit to talk about her l...
Kenneth Roth, the long-time head of Human Rights Watch, talks to M. Gessen about his first book, Righting Wrongs.
Eliza Clark talks to Allison Nellis about her debut short story collection, She's Always Hungry.
Historian Sarah Lewis talks to Nell Irvin Painter about her latest book, Read more
Bestselling author Victoria Christopher Murray sits down with journalist Melissa Noel to discuss her latest book, Harlem Rhapsody: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Ignited the Harlem Renaissance.
In 2003, author Jennifer Finney Boylan published She’s Not There, which became the first bestselling work by a transgender American and established Boylan as a go-to source for public conversation about the impact of gender on our lives. More than two decades later, her new memoir, Cleavage, returns with older and wiser eyes to examine the joys and the struggles of being transgender.
In this episode of Library Talks, Boylan sits do...
Writer and scholar David Wright Faladé sits down with Julie Orringer to discuss his latest book, The New Internationals, a stunning historical novel that sets a coming-of-age narrative and cross-cultural romance amidst a vibrant political moment in postwar Paris.
When author and historian Martha Hodes was 12-years-old she was flying unaccompanied on a plane that was hijacked. Nearly half a century later she explores her memories of that event in her book My Hijacking, which draws on deep archival research and extensive interviews both to re-create what happened to her as a child and to understand the larger context of the world-historical event in which she unwittingly participated.
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