Ruth Franklin is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic who is writing a new biography of Anne Frank for the Yale Jewish Lives series. Her book Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016) won numerous awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2016, a Time magazine top nonfiction book of 2016, and a “best …more

Book Talk with Jessica Emami

Co-sponsored by The Humanities Lab, the Literature Department, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the German Program of World Languages and Cultures this event is a poetry reading and Q&A by Professor Joshua Weiner from his new translation of Nelly Sachs's Flight and Metamorphosis (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2022).. One of the great German poets of the 20th century, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) is …more

The Center for Israel Studies and Department of Literature continue their Israeli Writers Series in 2023 with an exciting evening in conversation with award-winning Israeli author Omer Friedlander and Professor Lauren Strauss. Please join us!

A Starworks Fellow in Fiction at New York University, Omer Friedlander is the author of the short story collection, "The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy …more

Alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing program will read from published works followed by Q&A.

Former president of Hebrew University of Jeruselem, Menachem Ben-Sasson will give the Amos Perlmutter Memorial lecture.

Department of Philosophy and Religion's Annual Durfee Lecture

This talk will focus on new lines of research on the works of the influential Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). Recent years have seen the publication of many of his reading notes (starting with the book by Rosato and Álvarez), his editorial work (Benedict), his manuscripts and compositional practices (Balderston), his talks and courses (Blanco) and his work life (Saítta and others).…more

Department of Philosophy and Religion's Annual Hurst Lecture.

PPJ is releasing their 21st annual print journal. We will have an off-campus guest (currently in the works) and allow for other organizations to table in the back of the room. It's a bit of an expose style.