Join The New York Public Library and your favorite writers, artists, and thinkers for smart talks and provocative conversations from the nation's cultural capital.
Daisy Hernández with Jia Lynn Yang: Citizenship
57 mins; April 01, 2026
Library Talks: Ellen Carol DuBois with Julie Suk, 'Elizabeth Cady Stanton'
54 mins; March 25, 2026
Jeanne Theoharis with Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
51 mins; March 18, 2026
Clint Bentley with Aidan Flax-Clark: Train Dreams
58 mins; March 11, 2026
Nina Sankovitch with Jennifer Finney Boylan: Not Your Founding Father
55 mins; March 04, 2026
Emily Yellin and John C. Lawson II with Michelle Miller: Nonviolent
57 mins; February 25, 2026
Emerald Fennell with Aidan Flax-Clark: "Wuthering Heights"
58 mins; February 18, 2026
Edward McPherson with Robert Sullivan: Look Out
60 hours 18 mins; February 11, 2026
Akhil Reed Amar: Born Equal
66 hours 38 mins; February 04, 2026
Siddhartha Mukherjee with Dhruv Khullar: Revisiting The Emperor of All Maladies
59 mins; January 28, 2026
Tim Wu with Lina Khan: The Age of Extraction
55 mins; January 21, 2026
Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper with Joshua David Stein: Russ & Daughters: 100 Years of Appetizing
59 mins; January 14, 2026
Amanda Vaill with Bill Goldstein: Pride and Pleasure
58 mins; January 07, 2026
Mindy Weisberger with Paula Croxson: Rise of The Zombie Bugs
56 mins; December 31, 2025
Margalit Fox: The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum
55 mins; December 24, 2025
Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson: True Nature
52 mins; December 17, 2025
Jonathan Mahler with Amor Towles: The Gods of New York
58 mins; December 10, 2025
Dr. Tom Frieden with Chelsea Clinton: The Formula for Better Health
58 mins; December 03, 2025
Irin Carmon with Melissa Murray: Unbearable
61 hours 5 mins; November 26, 2025
Francesca Wade with Brenda Wineapple: Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
53 mins; November 19, 2025
Ray D. Madoff with Gary Gulman: The Second Estate
55 mins; November 12, 2025
Cheryl McKissack Daniel with Charlamagne Tha God: The Black Family Who Built America
51 mins; November 05, 2025
Gish Jen with Weike Wang: Bad Bad Girl
58 mins; October 29, 2025
David Szalay with Dua Lipa: Flesh
40 mins; October 22, 2025
Brian Jones with Bettina L. Love and Jesse Hagopian: Black History Is for Everyone
87 hours 17 mins; October 15, 2025
The New Yorker Editorial Roundtable
60 hours 25 mins; October 08, 2025
Jill Lepore with Jamal Greene: We the People
55 mins; October 01, 2025
Tricia Hersey with Glory Edim: We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape
51 mins; September 24, 2025
Lauren O'Neill-Butler with E.C. Feiss and Ciarán Finlayson: The War of Art
53 mins; September 17, 2025
Miriam Toews with Aidan Flax-Clark: A Truce That Is Not Peace
57 mins; September 10, 2025
Joshua Miele with Andrew Leland: Connecting Dots: A Blind Life
65 hours 31 mins; September 03, 2025
Eloghosa Osunde with Jake Morrissey: Necessary Fiction
59 mins; August 27, 2025
Raquel Willis with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan: The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
54 mins; August 20, 2025
Malcolm D. Lee and Jayne Allen with Bevy Smith: The Best Man: Unfinished Business
61 hours 16 mins; August 13, 2025
Kevin Nguyen with Chris Gayomali: Mỹ Documents
57 mins; August 06, 2025
Jeremy Tiang with Reuben Gelley Newman: State of Emergency
54 mins; July 30, 2025
Jonas Hassen Khemiri with Tess Gunty: The Sisters
57 mins; July 23, 2025
Bobby Hankinson: Kweendom: A Night of Queer Stand-Up
75 hours 2 mins; July 16, 2025
John B. King, Jr. with Lisette Nieves: Teacher by Teacher
42 mins; July 09, 2025
Kate Marvel and Friends, 'Human Nature'
55 mins; July 02, 2025
Stephanie Burt with Special Guests: Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall
61 hours 14 mins; June 25, 2025
Barbara Demick with Jessica Bruder: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
60 hours 9 mins; June 18, 2025
Madeleine Thien with Jiayang Fan: The Book of Records
55 mins; June 11, 2025
Claire Hoffman with Jelani Cobb: Sister, Sinner
61 hours 41 mins; June 04, 2025
Russell Shorto with Aidan Flax-Clark: Taking Manhattan
58 mins; May 28, 2025
Haleh Liza Gafori with Maya C. Popa: Water Translating Rumi
58 mins; May 21, 2025
Haleh Liza Gafori with Maya C. Popa: Water
58 mins; May 21, 2025
Chris Hughes with Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway: Marketcrafters
54 mins; May 14, 2025
Mike Hixenbaugh on his Award-Winning Book 'They Came for the Schools'
55 mins; May 07, 2025
Vicky Nguyen with Tracey Nguyen Mang: Boat Baby
60 hours 53 mins; April 30, 2025
José Andrés with Gail Simmons: Change the Recipe
76 hours 47 mins; April 23, 2025
Timothy Snyder: The New Paganism—A Framework for Understanding Our Politics
79 hours 35 mins; April 16, 2025
Alissa Wilkinson with Aidan Flax-Clark: We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
51 mins; April 09, 2025
Edna Bonhomme with Linda Villarosa: A History of the World in Six Plagues
58 mins; April 02, 2025
Hamid Rahmanian with Ahmad Sadri and Melissa Hibbard: Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
77 hours 1 min; March 26, 2025
Lisa Kyung Gross with Yael Raviv and Abi Balingit: The League of Kitchens Cookbook
60 hours 18 mins; March 19, 2025
Kenneth Roth with M. Gessen: Righting Wrongs
55 mins; March 12, 2025
Eliza Clark with Allison Nellis: She's Always Hungry
60 hours 56 mins; March 04, 2025
Sarah Lewis with Nell Irvin Painter: The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
54 mins; February 25, 2025
Victoria Christopher Murray with Melissa Noel: Harlem Rhapsody
69 hours 56 mins; February 18, 2025
Jennifer Finney Boylan with Roxane Gay: Cleavage
62 hours 6 mins; February 11, 2025
David Wright Faladé with Julie Orringer: The New Internationals
52 mins; February 04, 2025
Martha Hodes with Stacy Schiff: My Hijacking
55 mins; January 28, 2025
New York State Poet Patricia Spears Jones in Conversation with Brent Hayes Edwards
74 hours 13 mins; January 21, 2025
Deondra Rose and Angelo Pinto: The Power of Black Excellence
59 mins; January 14, 2025
Caoilinn Hughes with Brandon Taylor: The Alternatives
54 mins; January 07, 2025
Josephine Quinn with Ken Chen: How the World Made the West
59 mins; December 31, 2024
Jean Strouse with Hernan Diaz: Family Romance
58 mins; December 24, 2024
Dava Sobel with Angela Saini: The Elements of Marie Curie
57 mins; December 17, 2024
Daniel Saldaña París with Chloé Cooper Jones: Planes Flying over a Monster
55 mins; December 10, 2024
New York Crime Stories: Reading from the Archives
71 hours 57 mins; December 03, 2024
Maira Kalman with Rumaan Alam: Still Life with Remorse
52 mins; November 26, 2024
Celebrating Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer's 'The Joy of Connections'
53 mins; November 19, 2024
Glory Edim with Aminatou Sow: Gather Me
55 mins; November 12, 2024
Clara Bingham with Farai Chideya: Revolutionary Foremothers
58 mins; November 05, 2024
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson with Steve Connell: What If We Get It Right?
61 hours 5 mins; October 29, 2024
Ada Limón and Peter Sís: In Praise of Mystery
54 mins; October 22, 2024
Richard Powers with Marlon James: Playground
57 mins; October 15, 2024
Library Talks: Eliza Griswold, Hahrie Han with Andrea Elliott: 'Circle of Hope' and 'Undivided'
58 mins; October 08, 2024
Library Talks: DéLana R. A. Dameron with Renée Watson: Redwood Court
61 hours 14 mins; October 01, 2024
Connie Chung with Walter Isaacson
59 mins; September 25, 2024
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: Long Island Compromise
58 mins; September 19, 2024
Protecting Reproductive Freedoms: Lourdes Rivera, Meera Shah, Reva Siegel, and Jessica Bruder
59 mins; September 03, 2024
Jamaica Kincaid & Kara Walker with Hilton Als: An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
46 mins; August 20, 2024
Michael Stipe with Taryn Simon: Portraits of Now
53 mins; August 06, 2024
Neel Mukherjee with Hanya Yanagihara: Choice
58 mins; July 23, 2024
Justice Stephen Breyer: Choosing Pragmatism Over Textualism
74 hours 49 mins; July 09, 2024
Tom Steyer with David Wallace-Wells: Winning the Climate War
57 mins; June 25, 2024
Colm Tóibín with Caoilinn Hughes: Long Island
56 mins; June 11, 2024
Emily Wilson: Reading The Iliad
73 hours 34 mins; May 28, 2024
Ruha Benjamin with Rujeko Hockley: Imagination
58 mins; May 14, 2024
Library Talks - Marilynne Robinson
57 mins; April 30, 2024
Hillary Rodham Clinton with Jennifer Weiner
56 mins; April 16, 2024
Sasha Issenberg with Maggie Haberman: The Lie Detectives
59 mins; April 02, 2024
Lyn Slater and Chloé Cooper Jones
56 mins; March 19, 2024
Chasing Bruno Schulz: Benjamin Balint with Joshua Cohen
57 mins; March 05, 2024
Álvaro Enrigue with Marie Arana: You Dreamed of Empires
62 hours 23 mins; February 21, 2024
Heather Cox Richardson with Andrew Delbanco: Democracy Awakening
59 mins; February 06, 2024
Lesbian Poetic Traditions: Judy Grahn and Friends
57 mins; January 23, 2024
Vauhini Vara with Leslie Jamison: This Is Salvaged
