Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Reading the Nobel Prize: Han Kang with Elizabeth Howard
6 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT January 7 to March 25, 2025
In Person | Discover Han Kang’s haunting, lyrical explorations of the human condition, delving into themes of grief, identity, and...
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In Short: John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” with Pam Newton
Tuesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT January 7, 2025
In Person | Dive into a haunting, surreal commentary on the hollowness of suburban middle-class life by one of the masters of the short form.
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Anatomy of Desire: Part Deux with Lila Azam Zanganeh
6 Sessions Sundays, 12:00 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT January 5 to June 1, 2025
Online | Journey through centuries of desire—from a medieval masterpiece to modern explorations of passion and power—as told by...
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Reading 1984 in 2025: The Watcher Versus Being Watched with Jacqueline Ahl
3 Sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT January 23 to March 6, 2025
Online | Unclip the velvet rope that defines the space between fiction and drama, examining the impact of reading versus witnessing...
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Groups+Workshops
Reproductive Rights and Resistance: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments with Shirley Tung
3 Sessions Saturdays, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT January 18 to March 1, 2025
Online | Examine how Atwood’s dystopian novels speak to our own deep-seated anxieties about the stripping away of personal freedoms and bodily autonomy
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Paul Auster's New York Trilogy with Matilda Lin Berke
3 Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT February 2 to March 30, 2025
In Person | Experience the city that never sleeps as a map, a grid, and a series of reference points for a trio of novellas that pair...
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In Short: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness with Shirley Tung
Saturday, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT March 8, 2025
Online | Embark on a quest narrative that exposes the dark underbelly of imperialism and conveys the wide-scale social alienation that...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Katherine Mansfield's “Prelude” with Anne Fernald
Wednesday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT February 12, 2025
In Person | Journey through a bewildering blend of old and new worlds in Mansfield’s beautiful reminiscence of her upper-class...
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Groups+Workshops
Inherited Cultures: Immigrant Stories Across Generations by Debut Novelists with Miriam Tuliao
3 Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT February 6 to April 10, 2025
Online | Ranging from a meditative saga and bold bildungsroman to an autobiographical love story that explores family, immigration...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” with Sheridan Hay
Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT February 6, 2025
In Person | “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is perhaps the most famous American short story of the 19th century
