92NY Talks

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...

Join  New York Times  columnist David Brooks with renowned economist Tyler Cowen for a conversation about technology, morality, and finding humility in today's fractious political culture — in a live taping of Cowen's hit podcast  Conversations with Tyler . David Brooks' explorations of morality in contemporary politics and culture — the cultivation of spiritual and intellectual rigor through comp...

Join award-winning actor John Turturro for a conversation with  Happy Sad Confused 's Josh Horowitz about his Emmy-nominated performance in Apple TV+'s hit series  Severance , including clips from the show. Following a team of office workers at a mysterious company whose employees have undergone a procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives,  Severance  i...

The breakout star of HBO Max's Hacks , comedian Megan Stalter, is joined for conversation with Sarah Sherman about Too Much , the new series created by Lena Dunham. When Megan Stalter burst onto the scene as the hilariously brash (and slightly deluded) assistant/talent agent Kayla in  Hacks , critics and audiences immediately recognized her as a major new voice in comedy. Now, as the lead of Lena...

In this episode of 92NY Talks, join legendary comedian and podcaster Marc Maron  with fellow comedian Jim Gaffigan following a special screening of his new HBO comedy special,  Panicked . Hear Maron  and Gaffigan discuss how the new material evolved, making comedy in dark times, why he's decided to wrap up  WTF , and much more. The conversation was recorded July 31, 2025 at The 92nd Street Y, New...

Join Wall Street Journal's Josh Dawsey, The New York Times' Tyler Pager and The Washington Post's Isaac Arnsdorf with Pulitzer Prize winner Maggie Haberman for a conversation about Donald Trump's stunning political comeback, what it means for America, and Dawsey, Pager, and Arnsdorf's new account of the election, 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America. "The whole wor...

Join acclaimed comedian and New York Times-bestselling author Zarna Garg for a special conversation with Ira Glass (This American Life) about her new Hulu stand-up special, Practical People Win. The conversation was recorded on July 18th, 2025, at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

Ready to optimize your travel? Brian Kelly, founder of The Points Guy and "The Man Who Turned Credit-Card Points into an Empire" (The New York Times) relates secrets and tips from his bestselling book How to Win at Travel – and all you need to know to help you save money while upgrading your getaways. Recorded July 10, 2025, at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

Join Bridgewater founder and #1  New York Times -bestselling author and investor Ray Dalio for an urgent conversation about America's role in the global economy and debt — and his new book,  How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle . Ray Dalio, one of the preeminent investors of our time, anticipated the 2008 global financial crisis — and he has deep concerns about US government debt. Does government...

In  Who Knew , Barry Diller tells his story for the first time (and what a story it is). In a career spanning six extraordinary decades, Barry Diller has become one of the most successful executives in media history. Diller's ascent was meteoric, launching ABC-TV's Movie of the Week at age twenty-seven, becoming CEO of Paramount Pictures at age thirty-two, and launching the Fox TV network at age f...

In American Jewish life, few questions are as fraught — or as revealing — as this one: Is Donald Trump good for the Jews? For some, the answer lies in his record. As president, Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, brokered normalization deals between Israel and Arab states, and cast himself as an unflinching ally of the Jewish state. In re...

In this episode of 92NY talks, join the stars of the Netflix coming of age drama Ginny and Georgia , Antonia Gentry and Brianne Howey. The series follows a mother and daughter with a mysterious past as they attempt to set up a life for themselves in a small New England town. Hear them discuss the making of the show, creating a new kind of teen drama, what's new this season, stories from the set, a...

In this episode of 92NY Talks, join the hosts of the runaway hit podcast I've Had It, Jennifer Welch and Angie "Pumps" Sullivan, for a conversation with Don Lemon about their debut book, Life is a Lazy Susan of Sh*t Sandwiches. The conversation was recorded on May 27th, 2025, at The 92nd Street Y, New York.