LIVE from NYPL

Join us on 12/9 when Nicole Krauss discusses her first story collection, To Be a Man, and the everyday messiness of love, death, sex, power, and alienation that informs her characters' lives. She'll be joined by author Judith Thurman. Register for this free virtual event here:

Bryan Washington, winner of the NYPL The New York Public Library 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award, discusses the tale of love, vulnerability, alienation, family, and separation at the heart of his first novel, Memorial. He will be joined by New Yorker staff writer, Vinson Cunningham. Register for this free virtual event now!

Join us Tues 11/24 as Yaa Gyasi discusses her new novel, Transcendent Kingdom, with New Yorker staff writer Doreen St. Felix. Register here: https://www.showclix.com/event/yaagyasi/tag/fbpost

On Monday, July 13, The New York Public Library will begin to gradually reopen our physical locations. For more details about locations, services, and requirements, and to learn more about accessing our remote resources, visit our coronavirus (COVID-19) web page with updated information.

Join us tonight, Monday 10/26, and discover "The Dead Are Arising," the monumental new biography of Malcolm X 30 years in the making and now a finalist for a National Book Award. Register for this free, virtual event below:

Join us tonight, Thursday 10/21, as Natan Meir and Jonathan Stevenson uncover the lives of a minority within a minority and the roles played by the outcasts of Jewish society in the shtetls of eastern Europe, as they discuss Meir's new book "Stepchildren of the Shtetl." Register for this free virtual event below!

Join us on Thursday, October 15th as the 2020 election swings into view, contributors to The New York Review of Books examine and debate our moment of political division and crisis. Featuring: Jamelle Bouie, opinion columnist, The New York Times; Pamela Karlan, co-director, Stanford University Supreme Court Litigation Clinic; Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, Columbia University; Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University; and Brenda Wineapple, writer, literary critic, and essayist. Register for this free virtual event here:

On Wednesday, October 14th Martin Puchner, author and former Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library fellow, joins us and author, Sarah Weinman to decode the history of a secret language and of his family's own Nazi past. Register for this free, virtual event here:

Join us on Tueday, Oct. 13th as we welcome the women at the forefront of climate justice - poet, author, and scholar: Camille Dungy; Director of Climate Policy, Roosevelt Institute: Rhiana Gunn-Wright; founder, Urban Ocean Lab and founder/CEO, Ocean Collectiv: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, founder; New Yorker staff writer and Director of the Global Migration Project, Columbia Journalism School: Sarah Stillman; Chief Scientist, Carbon 180 and co-founder, 500 Women Scientists: Jane Zelikova. Register for this free, virtual here:

Fill your October calendar with our latest slate of LIVE from NYPL events! Featuring Jill Lepore, K-Ming Chang, Judy Woodruff, and more - register for these free events below!