Join National Geographic Explorer and award-winning photographer Kiliii Yuyan for a discussion around storytelling, humanity and our relationship with the planet.
Carla Hall in Please Underestimate Me World Premiere Solo Show.
From a New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping debut that defies all expectations—a story of feverish obsession, new motherhood, and a friendship pushed to the edgeEmily is unmoored as...
From a New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping debut that defies all expectations—a story of feverish obsession, new motherhood, and a friendship pushed to the edge.
Carla Hall in Please Underestimate Me World Premiere Solo Show.
Carla Hall in Please Underestimate Me World Premiere Solo Show.
Carla Hall in Please Underestimate Me World Premiere Solo Show.
Born to Run meets Why We Swim and Breath in a globe-spanning work of immersive narrative nonfiction that dives into the hidden world of cold water plunging and swimming—and what it reveals about ...
Carla Hall in Please Underestimate Me World Premiere Solo Show.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad and two-time Pulitzer winner comes Cool Machine, a novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad and two-time Pulitzer winner comes Cool Machine, a novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.
The highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted. To know the name Judy Blume is to k...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad and two-time Pulitzer winner comes Cool Machine, a novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.
When the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team competes in the Ohio High School Athletic Association state gymnastics meet, they're expected to win. That's because they've won e...
As a Black child adopted out of the New York foster care system as a toddler and raised by white Evangelical parents, Rhonda Roorda had to learn how to walk in two different worlds. She often quest...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad and two-time Pulitzer winner comes Cool Machine, a novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad and two-time Pulitzer winner comes Cool Machine, a novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad and two-time Pulitzer winner comes Cool Machine, a novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.
A new year begins, our first writings and early drafts rise from a plant like callus tissue, forming along our experiences, our conversations, a garden. Every line revives a leaf, a stem, a root.
From critically acclaimed podcaster and bestselling author Aaron Mahnke comes this engrossing and macabre exploration of the folklore and early medical practices that led to the New England Vampire...
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence. A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confus...
Cat St. Clair is ready for her messy love triangle era now that she’s in an open relationship. But she didn’t foresee a forbidden love triangle with the only two people who are off-limits: her ...
Thirteen-year-old Maggie lives in a trailer on the edge of a rural New Hampshire town, where her brother barely speaks, her father works double shifts at the gun factory, and her mother disappeared...
Express your inner beatnik through the spoken word. Read originals, OPP (other people's poetry), or just hob nob with the literary. Everyone is welcome.
Express your inner beatnik through the spoken word. Read originals, OPP (other people's poetry), or just hob nob with the literary. Everyone is welcome.
A marriage cracks apart as a near-future United States redraws its borders in this penetrating and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland. Natalie and Asher’s marri...
A story of love, marriage, and flowers from beloved writer and gardening enthusiast Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn Six months before their wedding, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s fiancé broke off their eng...
POW is the fascinating memoir of a precocious English teen in the early 1980s who published a music magazine, interviewed many of the era's top artists, befriended rock stars, ran a record label, a...
For fans of Starling House and A Discovery of Witches with a Thomas Crown Affair twist: a contemporary New England coven hides the mysteries that lurk in the marshes north of Boston—and how they ...
The history and meaning of one of the most controversial words in American English Few words in English are as charged as "nigga" and "n*gger." While the slur "n*gger" is universally recognized as ...
Hosted By ALL FOUR HOSTS ON THE FIFTH MONDAY: Including KaNikki J., 13th of Nazareth, Angelique Palmer, and Roscoe Burnems. For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices, and a vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians and a different host every week.
A new year begins, our first writings and early drafts rise from a plant like callus tissue, forming along our experiences, our conversations, a garden. Every line revives a leaf, a stem, a root.
R.F. Kuang in conversation with Amy Qin at Sixth & I. From R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis and Yellowface, comes Taipei Story, a humorous and moving coming-of-age novel that grapples with grief, language, and culture shock.
National Geographic Live brings awe-inspiring stories from the field to your city with touring live events. You'll meet National Geographic Explorers as they share behind-the-scenes stories and stunning visuals that ignite curiosity and spark real-world impact.
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and ...
Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apart—in a bookstore. Former economics major Matilda is moving back to her hometown of Washington D.C. to care for her ailin...
Grief, the transformative power of art, the meaning of family, and housing affordability are the subjects of this story about a young theater director returning to her childhood home after her moth...
A call to courage and connection from prize-winning poet and champion for the arts and humanities Elizabeth Alexander. “We send signals across vast distances, hoping to connect.” In luminous pr...
Perfect for fans of Eat, Pray, Love, this soulful travel memoir blends poetry, global adventure, cultural connection and personal transformation with reflections on race, identity, and belonging.
Selected Shorts takes a literary stroll across bridges (and onto one ferry), showcasing the diversity and breadth of our city through voices from all five boroughs. Join us for a storytelling snapshot of New York, as told by authors writing from five unique and beautiful vantage points.
From “one of the best writers in the English language” (The Washington Post), a sweeping yet intimate novel about one man’s life in the aftermath of the Civil War“I knew as I made my way ho...
A new year begins, our first writings and early drafts rise from a plant like callus tissue, forming along our experiences, our conversations, a garden. Every line revives a leaf, a stem, a root.
A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, whose “great body of work . . . has so much in it, more of life and of the world than that of almost any other poet now writing” (T...
ALL BOXES ARE GENERAL ADMISSION!
A fascinating and intimate inquiry into the shadowy life and horrifyingly compelling work of Edgar Allan Poe and why we are drawn to darkness in artSince Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in 184...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers, a captivating novel about love lost—and the weight of regret. What if I’d never gotten into that car? What if I’d pulled out o...
From the author of the multi-award-winning, National Book Award–longlisted, “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive” (George Saunders) story collection Heads of the Colored People...
Disney Legend and Imagineer Joe Rohde unlocks the secrets of creativity in this powerful exploration of imagination, innovation, and life lessons for turning vision into reality.
This event is in partnership with PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Figures of the past find new life in Yiyun Li’s thrillingly imagined saga following two musicians as they mature, study, travel, love, g...
The O.B. Hardison Poetry Series is proud to welcome both established and emerging writers for a season of literary events.
Join Folger Poetry in honoring the legacy of former Folger Shakespeare Library Director O.B. Hardison, Jr. with acclaimed poet Cornelius Eady (Pulitzer Prize–nominated The Gathering of My Name; National Book Award finalist for Brutal Imagination). Eady’s poetry centers the everyday experiences of Black Americans through his signature jazz and blues-inflected verse.
A groundbreaking new direction for Claudia Rankine, the best-selling author of Citizen and Just Us. Claudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying work.
Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2026, Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer), hosts our annual collaboration with one of the premier anthologies of contemporary American fiction. Come along on this spectacular journey of literature in performance and celebrate the achievements of established and emerging writers.
The definitive guidebook to celebrated and obscure cemeteries in and around the nation’s capital. Perfect for the “tombstone tourist,” this guidebook to eleven cemeteries in and around the Dis...
National Geographic Live brings awe-inspiring stories from the field to your city with touring live events. You'll meet National Geographic Explorers as they share behind-the-scenes stories and stunning visuals that ignite curiosity and spark real-world impact.
National Geographic Live brings awe-inspiring stories from the field to your city with touring live events. You'll meet National Geographic Explorers as they share behind-the-scenes stories and stunning visuals that ignite curiosity and spark real-world impact.
A young man journeys from Paris to Rwanda to discover the truth about his family’s past in this bestselling, prize-winning novel from internationally renowned Rwandan-French novelist and hip-hop artist Gaël Faye.
A new year begins, our first writings and early drafts rise from a plant like callus tissue, forming along our experiences, our conversations, a garden. Every line revives a leaf, a stem, a root.
A beautifully written and often speculative story collection infused with Caribbean and African myths and cultures, exploring love, betrayal, motherhood, death, and home.
As a kid, Rob was his uncle Pablo’s favorite, and the whole family knew it. Pablo’s only flaw was his wife, Mara, whom everyone called idiosyncratic—or plain crazy—and their son, Pablito, w...
The O.B. Hardison Poetry Series is proud to welcome both established and emerging writers for a season of literary events.
The Folger invites poet, essayist, and debut novelist Rebecca Lehmann (The Sweating Sickness, Ringer, Between the Crackups) for this annual event celebrating the legacy of one of America’s beloved poets, Emily Dickinson. Lehmann will read from her own works alongside selected passages from Dickinson’s poetry.
A gripping and ultimately hopeful tale of a future America on the cusp of electing the most unusual President in its history and an allegorical take on the state of our current political climate an...
The O.B. Hardison Poetry Series is proud to welcome both established and emerging writers for a season of literary events.
The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, created in honor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anthony Hecht, is awarded annually for a poetry collection by a writer who has published no more than one book of poetry. Acclaimed poet, classicist, and translator A.E. Stallings will select this year’s winner and read at the event.
The O.B. Hardison Poetry Series is proud to welcome both established and emerging writers for a season of literary events.
In celebration of National Poetry Month, the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series is launching its inaugural National Poetry Month Reading with American Book Award winner Matthew Shenoda. Shenoda will read from previous works, as well as his new collection Holdings, to be released by Knopf in April 2027.
The O.B. Hardison Poetry Series is proud to welcome both established and emerging writers for a season of literary events.
Carla Hall in Please Underestimate Me World Premiere Solo Show.
From a New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping debut that defies all expectations—a story of feverish obsession, new motherhood, and a friendship pushed to the edgeEmily is unmoored as...
From a New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping debut that defies all expectations—a story of feverish obsession, new motherhood, and a friendship pushed to the edge.
Carla Hall in Please Underestimate Me World Premiere Solo Show.
Carla Hall in Please Underestimate Me World Premiere Solo Show.
Carla Hall in Please Underestimate Me World Premiere Solo Show.
Carla Hall in Please Underestimate Me World Premiere Solo Show.
Born to Run meets Why We Swim and Breath in a globe-spanning work of immersive narrative nonfiction that dives into the hidden world of cold water plunging and swimming—and what it reveals about ...