Foreign Bodies
Simon Schama described the history of pandemics and the attempts to stop them. This event was hosted by the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center in New York City.
250 viewsSimon Schama described the history of pandemics and the attempts to stop them. This event was hosted by the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center in New York City.
250 viewsAuthors Simon Winchester (Knowing What We Know) and Adam Gopnik (The Real Work) discussed the human capacity for acquiring knowledge and mastering a skill. This event took place at the 2023 …
185 viewsAdam Gopnik and Simon Winchester shared their thoughts on how humans learn and share knowledge.
321 viewsInvestigative journalist Lesley Blume recounted the efforts by New Yorker writer John Hershey to report on the fatal impact, both short-term and long-term, of the American bombing of Hiroshi…
1,071 viewsNew Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik talked about his book, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, in which he shared his thoughts on liberalism and how it has been def…
678 viewsAdam Gopnik talked about his book, At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York.
428 viewsA complete reading of the late Elie Wiesel’s Night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. This is part three of three.
3,327 viewsSean Hemingway talked about the book he edited, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition (Scribner; July 14, 2009). Sean Hemingway’s grandfather, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest…
898 viewsAdam Gopnik talked about Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (Knopf; January 27, 2009). The book is an examination of the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charle…
635 viewsUmberto Eco delivered remarks at the Third Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture in the Great Hall of Cooper Union. Topics included how fiction and “untruth” inform our reality, indi…
776 viewsMr. Gopnik talked about his book Paris to the Moon, published by Random House. He described the cultural differences between France and America and what it was like for his family to live as…
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