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.
Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
77 hours 59 mins; October 03, 2017
Jesmyn Ward on 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'
55 mins; September 26, 2017
Atul Gawande & Elizabeth Alexander
71 hours 39 mins; September 19, 2017
Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland
57 mins; September 12, 2017
Raoul Peck, "I Am Not Your Negro"
70 hours 22 mins; September 05, 2017
Ayobami Adebayo on her debut novel "Stay With Me"
46 mins; August 29, 2017
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
78 hours 33 mins; August 22, 2017
Noam Chomsky and Wallace Shawn: Rigorous Rationality
80 hours 20 mins; August 15, 2017
How Judy Collins Conquered Her Cravings
61 hours 7 mins; August 08, 2017
Lynn Nottage & Sweat
66 hours 43 mins; August 01, 2017
Immigrant Stories—Min Jin Lee with Simon Winchester
61 hours 20 mins; July 25, 2017
Phillip Glass, Words Without Music
82 hours 1 min; July 18, 2017
Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty
56 mins; July 11, 2017
Inside the Work and Mind of Nick Cave
50 mins; July 04, 2017
David Grann
49 mins; June 27, 2017
Tracy K. Smith, New U.S. Poet Laureate
37 mins; June 20, 2017
Jelani Cobb, The Half-Life of Freedom (Part 2: Demagogues of American History)
64 hours 40 mins; June 15, 2017
Jelani Cobb, The Half-Life of Freedom (Part 1: The Media and Alternative Facts)
66 hours 0 mins; June 13, 2017
Alec Baldwin
78 hours 56 mins; June 06, 2017
Journalism in the Age of Trump, part 2
57 mins; May 30, 2017
Jane Mayer, Winner of the Bernstein Award
52 mins; May 23, 2017
George Packer and Reihan Salam with Tony Marx
74 hours 47 mins; May 15, 2017
Syria's Human Side, with Janine di Giovanni
46 mins; May 09, 2017
Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Bernstein Award Finalist
61 hours 23 mins; May 02, 2017
The Librarian Is In: American Passions
39 mins; April 27, 2017
Lawrence Krauss w/ Alan Alda. Reality, the Real Story
79 hours 48 mins; April 25, 2017
Gary Younge, Bernstein Award Finalist
55 mins; April 18, 2017
Like Passover, But Funnier
59 mins; April 11, 2017
Sonia Shah & Pandemic, Bernstein Award Finalist
57 mins; April 04, 2017
Women's and Girls' Lives Matter
79 hours 55 mins; March 28, 2017
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear with Dr. Ofri and Mary Harris
61 hours 39 mins; March 21, 2017
Etgar Keret, the Rock and the Hard Place
92 hours 13 mins; March 16, 2017
Journalism in the Age of Trump
79 hours 5 mins; March 08, 2017
Civil Rights Journeys Across Generations
57 mins; February 28, 2017
Casanova: Seduction and Genius in Venice
59 mins; February 21, 2017
Hugh Ryan on the Queer Histories of Brooklyn's Waterfront
78 hours 49 mins; February 14, 2017
Emmett Till: True Stories of An American Tragedy
64 hours 52 mins; February 07, 2017
George Washington and the Hyper-Partisan Now
60 hours 36 mins; January 31, 2017
New York Never Built
86 hours 38 mins; January 24, 2017
Art Spiegelman on How He Sees Himself, Becoming a Devotee to Another Artist, and the Artist After Art
91 hours 1 min; January 17, 2017
Our Compelling Interests: A Panel on Diversity and Democracy
83 hours 11 mins; January 10, 2017
Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Garnette Cadogan, Suketu Mehta, and Luc Sante on Phone Maps, Libraries, and Walking
101 hours 45 mins; January 03, 2017
Michael Chabon and Richard Price on Plot, Secular Judaism, and Remembering to Make Stuff Up
58 mins; December 27, 2016
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol" (Rebroadcast)
87 hours 30 mins; December 20, 2016
Paul Krugman on Fake News, Lying Candidates, and What Public Intellectuals Need to Do
89 hours 45 mins; December 13, 2016
James McBride on James Brown and NYC
75 hours 59 mins; December 06, 2016
Sarah Sze on Scale, Gravity, and Value
93 hours 58 mins; November 29, 2016
Robbie Robertson on Six Nations Inspiration, Bob Dylan, and Goals of the Soul
79 hours 4 mins; November 22, 2016
Wole Soyinka on Hollywood, Reparations, and Morgan Freeman
87 hours 58 mins; November 15, 2016
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Margo Jefferson on Understanding Uncle Tom's Cabin
78 hours 19 mins; November 08, 2016
Marina Abramović and Debbie Harry on Doubt and Diaries
82 hours 4 mins; November 01, 2016
Tim Wu on How the Internet Is Not Really Free
92 hours 55 mins; October 25, 2016
Margaret Atwood on Shakespeare in the 21st Century and on YouTube
82 hours 10 mins; October 18, 2016
Mona Eltahawy and Yasmine El Rashidi on White Feminism and the Privilege to Protest
99 hours 12 mins; October 11, 2016
Sally Mann on Cy Twombly and the Babushkas Who Saved Russian Art
92 hours 53 mins; October 04, 2016
Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky on Money and The Sickest Joke in the History of Humankind
95 hours 23 mins; September 27, 2016
Alan Cumming on Memory, Gore Vidal, and Monica Lewinsky
87 hours 57 mins; September 20, 2016
Edwidge Danticat on Silence, Bridging Audiences, and Participating in Stories
67 hours 33 mins; September 13, 2016
Werner Herzog on Death, Executioners, and Advice for Filmmakers
109 hours 18 mins; September 06, 2016
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Walter Mosley on Empire, English, and Beethoven
82 hours 28 mins; August 30, 2016
Maggie Nelson & Wayne Koestenbaum on Clarity & Cruelty
61 hours 41 mins; August 23, 2016
Colson Whitehead on "The Underground Railroad" & Poker
30 mins; August 16, 2016
Kevin Young & Gabrielle Hamilton on Food & Poetry
54 mins; August 09, 2016
Siddhartha Mukherjee on Genetics & Storytelling
73 hours 34 mins; August 02, 2016
Laurie Anderson on Melville, Opera, and Mystery
94 hours 52 mins; July 26, 2016
Derek Walcott on Hemingway, the Caribbean, & First Love
43 mins; July 19, 2016
John Lithgow & James Shapiro on Guy Fawkes & Falling for Shakespeare
59 mins; July 12, 2016
The World in Words Presents: From Ainu to Zaza
65 hours 58 mins; July 05, 2016
Geoff Dyer on Class in America
35 mins; June 28, 2016
Bruce Davidson & Matt Dillon on Lasting Impressions
76 hours 51 mins; June 21, 2016
Padma Lakshmi on NYC & the Greatest Gift
45 mins; June 14, 2016
Jill Leovy on Murder in America
46 mins; June 07, 2016
Maya Lin on Memorializing What Is Missing
91 hours 46 mins; May 31, 2016
Ă…sne Seierstad on the Deadliest Attack on Norway Since WWII
69 hours 32 mins; May 24, 2016
The Bad Rap of Do-Gooders: Larissa MacFarquhar
71 hours 2 mins; May 17, 2016
Helen Mirren on Women's Roles & Taking on Shakespeare
97 hours 27 mins; May 10, 2016
Dan Ephron: When The Man Who Almost Changed Israel Met Bill Clinton
53 mins; May 03, 2016
Rosanne Cash on Shakespeare, Performing, & Poetry
81 hours 57 mins; April 26, 2016
Dale Russakoff: When Facebook Tried to Save Newark
61 hours 1 min; April 19, 2016
Robert A. Caro & Frank Rich on Power & Corruption
47 mins; April 12, 2016
Elizabeth Alexander & Hilton Als on Dreams & Obsession
71 hours 24 mins; April 05, 2016
Nathaniel Kahn & Matt Mountain on Outer Space & Weird Science
