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Book Event: Tuesday, September 21
Richard Hurowitz in conversation with Margaret Hoover
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Book Event: In the Garden of the Righteous
In Conversation with Tom Teicholz
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Paying Attention in Polarized Times: Sarah Watling on the Spanish Civil War
“I was interested in what happened when people did decide to “take sides”, or to act where their governments wouldn’t. What are the costs of that…
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Mark Braude
Elliot Ackerman on His New Novel, HALCYON, Where Death is a Thing of the Past
“Is it always worthwhile to reach back and try to reconcile the past? Is it even possible?”
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Mark Braude
Subscriber Event: 92NY
May 21 discussion with Daniel Mendelsohn
Britain's Schindler, Nicholas Winton
As the Second World War loomed, a London banker helped evacuate hundreds of Czech children to safety and new homes in England.
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Richard Hurowitz
E Pluribus Unum: Ilan Stavans on American English
"It's a language that is incredibly versatile and incredibly volatile too."
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Richard Hurowitz
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