NYR Calendar of Coming Events

Events: Readings and Talks

June 4, 2013, 7 pm

Cotton Tenants: A Discussion with John Summers, Adam Haslett, and Daniel Thomas Davis

McNally Jackson, New York

As the novelist Adam Haslett writes in the introduction, the never before seen material in Cotton Tenants from Agee and Evans represents “a poet’s brief for the prosecution of economic and social injustice,” as relevant today as it was then.

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Selected by Yasmine El Rashidi

June 9, 2013, 7 pm

A Tale From Baghdad

Durham Cathedral, Durham

Chirine Al-Ansary's performance at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Durham Cathedral will borrow from the tales of the Thousand and One Nights, with new anecdotes and insight from the present.

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Category: Theater, Other and Readings and Talks

June 22, 2013 – June 23, 2013

Philosophy as a Humanist Discipline

Wadham College, Oxford

A conference to mark the 50th anniversary of The New York Review of Books and to honour the lives, work, and legacy of Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire and Bernard Williams.

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Category: NYR and NYRB and Readings and Talks