92NY Talks

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison helped Americans of all races see themselves with radical clarity in modern classics like  Sula  and  Beloved . Her lectures on American literature and racial imagination, now available for the first time, have never been more necessary. Join  The New Yorker 's poetry editor Kevin Young, novelist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, writer Sasha Bonét, and poet Regin...

Michael Douglas embodied the ruthless extremes of 1980s capitalism with his Oscar-winning portrayal of investor Gordon Gekko, the coldly calculating corporate raider who takes eager young stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) under his wing. "There's no nobility in poverty anymore," Bud tells his working-class dad (real-life father Martin Sheen), before embarking on a series of ethical compromises i...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro joins us for a conversation about the intersection of public service, personal faith, and Jewish values — and his new memoir,  Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service . From an early age, Josh Shapiro learned and practiced the power of showing up, listening, and working to make peoples' lives a little better. And as Governor of Pennsylvania, he's...

A neuroscientist, a philosopher and a physicist convene to discuss one of the biggest and most significant questions of all time: human consciousness, what we know and don't know about it, and whether science will ever be able to understand what makes you, you.

Join bestselling Trump biographer Michael Wolff (author of Fire and Fury and All or Nothing ) and the Daily Beast's Joanna Coles for a live recording of their hit podcast, Inside Trump's Head . Combining expert reportage and in-depth character analysis, Coles and Wolff dissect the singular motivations of the most powerful man in the world. Diving deep into Trump's secrets and psyche and drawing on...

Join award-winning comedian Rose Matafeo for a screening and conversation with John Oliver on her hilarious new Max Original comedy special, Rose Matafeo: On and On and On. Rose Matafeo's stand-up special crackles with insightful, self-deprecating wit as she gets candid on life in her 30s — dating culture, supporting friends through breakups, the stark differences between herself and her parents a...

Moderator Annette Insdorf will interview Ethan Hawke about his new film,  Blue Moon . The prolific actor, writer, director and musician offers a tour-de-force performance as the acerbic lyricist Lorenz Hart, whose songs include "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady Is a Tramp," and "Blue Moon." In addition to Hawke's Oscar-nominated performance opposite Denzel Washington in  Training Day  (2001), he is...

As  Saturday Night Live  marks its 50th anniversary, celebrate the genius behind one of television's most enduring cultural institutions — Lorne Michaels. In her definitive biography,  Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Life , Susan Morrison — articles editor at  The New Yorker  — gains unprecedented access to Michaels himself, along with  SNL 's iconic cast and writers, offering a rare, b...

Kate Winslet never stops. From classic roles in films like Titanic to her indelible work on television in shows like Mare of Eastown , her acting is versatile as it is magnetic. Lee is the most recent chapter in an iconic career. Based on a true story, and following a pivotal decade in the life of American war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller (Winslet), Lee is a fascinating portrait the w...

Join acclaimed novelist and poet Victoria Redel with Sarah Jessica Parker and editor Adam Moss for a conversation about Redel's absorbing new novel,  I Am You , published by Parker's literary imprint, SJP Lit. In this gorgeously crafted historical fiction set in 17th-century Holland, Redel excavates the long-overlooked story of one of the few female Dutch Masters painters, Maria van Oosterwijck, a...

Join Pulitzer Prize–winning  Washington Post  reporters Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis for a riveting conversation about their explosive new book,  Injustice . With unparalleled access to sources inside both the Trump and Biden administrations, they pull back the curtain on the Department of Justice — an institution meant to be above politics, yet shaken to its core by fear, dysfunction, and partis...

Join renowned personal finance expert Jim Cramer for a crash course in how to make the most of their finances and invest smart — a conversation about his new book,  How to Make Money in Any Market . Except for the one percent of the one percent, nobody learns how to make your money grow in the stock market. Jim Cramer has spent his career determined to change that, helping to demystify the stock m...

Salman Rushdie, longtime friend of 92NY's storied literary community, returns to our stage for a reading and conversation with Daniel Kehlmann about  The Eleventh Hour  — a supremely inventive new collection about survival, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life. Awarded the Best of Booker for his seminal debut,  Midnight's Children  — honoring it as the most acco...

Friends of the great Anthony Bourdain gather for a celebratory reading and conversation spanning the worlds of literature, food, and travel, in honor of Bourdain's restless creative spirit — and launching The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing. Legendary chef, television host, and writer Anthony Bourdain was a trailblazer who changed the way we thought about food, cult...

Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Robin Givhan joins Monica L. Miller, professor and co-curator of Superfine: Tailoring Black Style , the Costume Institute exhibition now on view at The Met, for a conversation about the crossroads of fashion, culture, identity, and art — and the life of the great designer Virgil Abloh, as told in Givhan's new biography, Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Cul...

Go behind the scenes of two iconic roles — and the wild ride in between — as Michael J. Fox joins longtime collaborator and co-author Nelle Fortenberry to discuss their new book,  Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum . In the early months of 1985, Michael J. Fox did the impossible: starring in  Family Ties  by day, and filming  Back to the Future  by night...

Legendary filmmaker and writer John Waters joins us for a reading and conversation spanning the arc of his remarkable career, in celebration of the new reissue of his classic early screenplays, with  The New Yorker 's Michael Schulman. From the shocking  Pink Flamingos , which established him as a household name and set a new bar for cinematic filth, to  Hairspray , the sweetly triumphant story of...

Join former US attorneys Joyce Vance and Preet Bharara for a conversation and special live podcast taping of  Stay Tuned with Preet , about history, the law, and what it will take to save our democracy — and Vance's first book,  Giving Up Is Unforgivable . "We're in this together." For the past two years, Joyce Vance has signed off posts on her the chart-topping Substack  Civil Discourse  with the...

Join #1  New York Times -bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell discuss his latest book,  Revenge of the Tipping Point ; a fresh look at his breakthrough book,  The Tipping Point . In 1996, Malcolm Gladwell published a piece in  The New Yorker  that became the seed of  The Tipping Point . Twenty-five years after the book's publication, it remains a global phenomenon — blending social science, history...

The Booker prize-winning author of  Atonement  and  Saturday  joins us for the launch of his audacious new novel — a genre-bending, time-traveling tour de force. For decades, Ian McEwan's novels have probed the depths of the human heart, creating unforgettable and utterly relatable characters of extraordinary moral complexity, caught in the crosscurrents of memory, history, and desire. His new nov...

The Atlantic 's Thomas Chatterton Williams joins #1  New York Times -bestselling social psychologist Jonathan Haidt ( The Anxious Generation ) for a searching conversation about the evolution, paradoxes, and taboos of American social justice movements in the years since 2020 — and Williams' bracing new book,  Summer of Our Discontent . In this sharp and unsettling work, Thomas Chatterton Williams...

Join Pulitzer Prize winning writers Trymaine Lee and Nikole Hannah-Jones for a conversation about mortality, the weight of journalistic witness, and the enduring power of family in the face of violence — and Lee's new book,  A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America . A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his the...

In a moment when campus culture wars dominate headlines and government is putting enormous pressure on universities to change, two titans of American academia meet for a rare public conversation at 92NY. Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus of Harvard University and former US Treasury Secretary, and Lee C. Bollinger, President Emeritus of Columbia University and one of the nation's leading Firs...

Join the stars and producers of Hulu's new limited series, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox — Knox herself, who is an executive producer; star Grace Van Patten; creator and executive producer KJ Steinberg; and executive producers Monica Lewinsky and Warren Littlefield — for a special conversation.

Broadway's megawatt new season starts here, as award-winning actors Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and director Scott Ellis join  CBS Sunday Morning 's Tracy Smith to talk about the upcoming, first-ever Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning  Art . The play  The New York Times  called "a lacerating comedy" centers on the purchase of an abstract white painting by...