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Columnist Danny Heitman discussed the importance of rereading classical literature. “About Books” also reported on the latest publishing news and current non-fiction books.

New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil examined how artificial intelligence and art can connect the past and future through the lens of her family’s personal history, spanning three generations.

Author Phillip Dodd discussed the finest examples of Beaux-Arts Architecture associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age (1877-1920) and the stories of those who commissioned, designed, a…

The Hoover Institution hosted a discussion on the origins and development of poster art and how poster artists helped shape public opinion during World War I.

The 50th anniversary of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago was marked with a discussion about the book’s impact and anti-totalitarianism legacy. The Victims of Communism Museum i…

Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry discussed his life and work with Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight. This event was part of the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival held in Ca…

Jessica Wilson (Pepperdine University), co-editor of The Liberating Arts," and contributors Zena Hitz (St. John’s College) and Jonathan Tran (Baylor University) talked about the value of a l…

Ukrainian journalist Andrey Kurkov (Diary of an Invasion) and American author Jonathan Franzen (The End of the End of the Earth) discussed their work and the role of literature during times …

President Biden held a ceremony at the White House to honor recipients of the 2021 National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. (The ceremony was postponed due to the COVID-19 p…

Camille Dungy and Tiphanie Yanique, who contributed to the book, How We Do It: Black Writers on a Craft," discussed Black identity in the literary world. They spoke at the 2023 Library of Co…

First lady Jill Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at a White House celebration of the 2023 Praemium Imperiale Laureates.

A panel of black women writers talked about Zora Neale Hurston and her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. They talked about the influence the book has had on African-American culture and th…

Harry Katz talked about his book Mark Twain’s America: A Celebration in Words and Images, a collection of photographs, illustrations, and newspaper clippings that depicts the world that insp…

A bronze statue of author Willa Cather (1873-1947) was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol National Statuary Hall, representing Nebraska - the scene of prairie life depicted in her novels. She was …

Tulane University professor John “Ray” Proctor taught a class about playwright August Wilson, his contribution to African American theatre and his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fences.

University of California, Davis, art history professor Heghnar Watenpaugh discussed objects of native American culture in museum collections as well as repatriation efforts.

Baruch College Professors Vincent DiGirolamo and Elizabeth Wollman taught a class about New York City and Broadway in the 1960s. They described the political culture of the time, the relatio…

Several writers explored the American experience, historical fiction, and ideas of democracy through the lens of novels by the late Philip Roth, including American Pastoral, The Plot Against…

Daniel Weiss, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, talked about the life of poet and musician Michael O’Donnell, who went missing in action during the Vietnam War after the h…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker spoke about her development as a writer and activist. The Dallas Museum of the Arts hosted this virtual program.