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Philippe Lançon on Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo

Writer and Charlie Hebdo columnist Philippe Lançon survived the last day of his life—January 7, 2015. But his jaw, mangled by a terrorist’s...

We hosted the launch of Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness, a stirring and meditative follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel What Belongs to You

Jeffrey Colvin’s epic family saga Africaville is the remarkable result of 20 years of research on the little-known free black communities...

Eisa Davis hosted our Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner with co-chairs André Aciman, Deborah Eisenberg...

Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak...

A reflection on the late Glenn O’Brien’s particular genius as a cultural critic, whose witty observations and advice...

Stage and screen actor Richard Bekins performed excerpts from Deborah Levy’s The...

Freeman’s editor John Freeman joined contributors Catherine Barnett, Elaine Castillo, Jennifer Egan, Maggie Millner, and Xuan Juliana...

Well-Read Black Girl welcomes world-renowned LGBTQ poet and spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin to the 3rd annual #WRBGFest kick-off party

An exploration into connections between visual art and fiction for a cross-disciplinary discussion focusing on Susan Steinberg’s novel Machine...