Poetic Muses On Feminism, Fire & Form – Poetry
This panel brings together three poets whose distinct voices form a harmony of female subjectivity, resilience, adaptation, and innovation around questions of art, pop culture,
Why Poetry Still Matters – Poetry
During the historic dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama, as told in his international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus, Rodger Kamenetz heard a
Defiance & Determination: True-Life Tales – Nonfiction/No Ficción
Haley Cohen Gilliland’s A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
Women Of Strength & Survival – Fiction
Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness: A Novel is the story of five Black women navigating two decades of friendship, from young adulthood into midlife. Desiree, Danielle,
The Holocaust: History & Heroes – Nonfiction
Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII chronicles
Stardom, Sexuality & Dissociation: Three Memoirs
Chloé Caldwell’s Trying: A Memoir is one woman’s story told through selective journaling: her struggle with infertility, the dissolution of her marriage – and an
Chaos & Cabernet: Women Behaving Boldly– Fiction
Lisa F. Rosenberg’s Fine, I’m a Terrible Person is a mother-daughter caper story starring overweight former beauty Aurora and her high-strung daughter, Leyla. Over the
Revisiting Maus – Nonfiction
In the pages of MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus, Art Spiegelman revisits the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, which altered how we see literature,
Family Strife, The Deliciously Sublime & Clouds In The Desert – Fiction
Iddo Gefen’s Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Factory: A Novel, translated by Daniella Zamir, begins with the title character drinking a martini in a crater in the
Alone In Anne Frank’s House – Nonfiction
In 2021, French writer Lola Lafon was granted permission to stay overnight – alone for 10 hours – in the Annex in Amsterdam, where Anne
Rising Sons: Confronting Tragedy – Fiction
In My Darling Boy: A Novel, John Dufresne tells the story of Olney, whose beloved son Cully collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic
On Antisemitism In America – Nonfiction
In Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Pamela S. Nadell traces nearly four centuries of antisemitism in the United States, from Peter Stuyvesant’s attempt to deport Jews