Author Talk

Madhur Jaffrey in Conversation with André Bernard on September 30 from 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Madhur Jaffrey first introduced the West to the delights of Indian food almost 40 years…

Robert Kaplan will discuss his new book, The Loom of Time,  in conversation with Jim Brooke. Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty-two books on foreign affairs and…

Author Olga Shevchenko in conversation with Jim Brooke to discuss her new book In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos Olga Shevchenko teaches and does research on the issues…

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life author Alexander Stille is a journalist and author of six books as well as a professor of international journalism at the Graduate…

Author Martin Baron will be in conversation with Alan C. Miller discussing Martin's new book Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST. Martin Baron is a longtime journalist…

Judy White Staber was born into a theatrical family during World War II and came to America in 1959 working in the visual and performing arts for all her American…

Roxana Robinson is the author of eleven books—seven novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two…

Harold Holzer is the recipient of the 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize. One of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, Holzer was…

Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist with a global reach. Her new book, Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure, explores why we should seek not-knowing in times of flux. Nominated…

Talk by Aaron Lansky How We Rescued a Million Yiddish Books and Why They Matter Aaron Lansky was 24 years old in 1980 when he took what he thought would…

Michael S. Roth '78 became the 16th president of Wesleyan University in 2007. He has overseen the launch of academic programs at Wesleyan such as the Allbritton Center for the…