Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Portraits of Home with Keishel Williams
4 Sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT February 5 to April 30, 2026
Online | Trace how Adichie captures the complexities of identity, migration, and belonging with emotional precision and cultural acuity...
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The Literary Sex Lives of James Baldwin with Channelle Chevelle Russell
3 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT February 4 to March 18, 2026
In Person | Examine Baldwin’s fiction through the lens of race, gender, and sexuality, exploring how his novels illuminate desire...
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Contemporary Lesbian Fiction with Natalie Adler
5 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT February 3 to April 28, 2026
In Person | Lately known as “sapphic lit,” these novels explore loving a woman as both complication and revelation, delving into...
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Kafka's Amerika and Ours with Martha Cooley
4 Sessions Sundays, 11:30 am EDT - 1:00 pm EDT February 1 to April 12, 2026
Online | Read several of Kafka’s short stories and his marvelous early novel, Amerika—a picaresque romp, a dive into...
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Good Girls Gone Bad: Contemporary Novels of Morally Questionable Women with Hilary Davidson
4 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT January 28 to April 22, 2026
Online | Unpack four contemporary novels featuring morally ambiguous women, where ambition, desire, and dark choices reveal the complexity—and...
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In Short: Isaac Singer’s “The Old Man” with Richard Klin
Tuesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT January 27, 2026
Online | Discover Singer’s early modern retelling of the story of Job, blending folklore and contemporary insight to explore Jewish...
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In Short: Selections from Joan Didion’s The White Album with Meredith Mann
Tuesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT January 27, 2026
In Person | Explore Didion’s incisive, cinematic essays dissecting our attempts to understand and control the natural world, with...
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In Short: William Faulkner's "A Justice" with Carl Rollyson
Monday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT January 26, 2026
Online | Examine this powerful 1931 precursor to Absalom! Absalom! which probes the intertwined histories of race, freedom...
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Reflections on Mortality from Leo Tolstoy and Paul Kalanithi with Thais Vitorelli
2 Sessions Saturdays, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT January 24 to February 21, 2026
Online | Confront life, death, and the search for meaning through landmark works like The Death of Ivan Ilyich, exploring how...
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Conversations with Sally Rooney with Chris Holmes (January 2026)
3 Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT January 15 to February 26, 2026
In Person | Dissect the allure of Rooney’s fiction, where intense intimacy, vulnerability, and tenderness intersect with keen social...
