Risky Talking (full audio)
A discussion with Laura Flanders, Piper Kerman, Elizabeth Streb, and Donna Hylton on the nature of risk-taking. More
2015 World Voices Festival Opening Night: Lola Shoneyin (audio)
For this flagship opening night event, leading writers from around the globe presented their worst- and best-case scenarios for where the world may be in the year 2050, offering… More
Opening Night with Binyavanga Wainaina (audio)
For this flagship event, speakers gave intelligent, original, humorous, and lyrical insights for what the world will look like in the year 2050. More
Memoir and Memory with Tracy K. Smith (audio)
Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens… More
Memoir and Memory with Michael Ondaatje (audio)
Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens… More
Memoir and Memory with Luc Sante (audio)
Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens… More
Stories That Traveled (audio)
Africa offers rich, exciting, and enduring tales for young U.S. readers. Three authors of books for children and young adults—a storyteller, a poet, and a novelist—reveal the ways the… More
African Poets: A New Generation (audio)
This lavishly hip and intellectually robust poetry event, presented in association with Akashic Books, which recently published the box set Eight New-Generation African Poets, brings together editors Kwame Dawes… More
On Ukraine from the Inside (audio)
A conspiracy thriller documentary, The Russian Woodpecker follows eccentric Ukrainian artist Fedor Alexandrovich as he unmasks a Chernobyl disaster cover-up amid clouds of war and revolution. Winner of a… More
Ninety Minutes, Three Minds (audio)
Moderated by Vanity Fair staff editor Anderson Tepper, these conversations get up close with three top African writers: Adéwálé Àjàdí (Nigeria), activist and author of the hit play Abyssinia;… More
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