Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library - SNFL, NYPL

04/14/2026

03/24/2026

Coming up | Join SNFL and the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) for a celebration of Arab American Heritage Month and National Poetry Month, with readings by Maha Hashwi, Ghinwa Jawhari, Lawrence Joseph, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef.

To honor the rich poetic tradition of Arab American literature, poets Maha Hashwi, Ghinwa Jawhari, Lawrence Joseph, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef will read from and discuss their work. This event is hosted in partnership with RAWI, founded in 1993 as the Radius of Arab American Writers.

🗓 Tuesday, April 7
🕕 6:30 PM ET
📍 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library + Livestream

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03/20/2026

Coming up | join us for an evening of transformative performance and storytelling as we explore the journey from survival to advocacy after gender-based violence with Gibney Move to Move Beyond Storytellers and special guest and author Michelle Horton.

Through the combined power of dance and the written word, we will celebrate the courage of those who turn their personal experiences into a collective force for change. While the evening will address the heavy realities of domestic and gender-based violence, the spirit of the program is uplifting and transformative.

🗓 Wednesday, March 25
🕕 6:30 PM ET
📍 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library

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03/17/2026

Divorced, Beheaded…Survived!?✨| This Women’s History Month, join award-winning author Rebecca Lehmann for a conversation about her debut novel The Beheading Game–an audacious, feminist take on British royal history that imagines what would happen if Anne Boleyn woke up after her ex*****on and set out on a quest for vengeance–with fellow writer Anna Solomon (The Book of V.).

A fantastical journey through the wilds of England and Tudor history, filled with danger and magic and steeped in Arthurian legend, The Beheading Game is a prescient reminder that “mouthy” women have always been punished. Now, thanks to debut novelist Rebecca Lehmann, nearly five hundred years after Anne Boleyn’s death, one of history’s most maligned women finally has the chance to tell her story.

🗓 Monday, March 30
🕕 6:30 PM ET
📍 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library + Livestream
👑 Wear yours

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03/12/2026

🍀🍀🍀 Join us next week for a conversation about early attempts at book banning and the struggle to bring James Joyce’s Ulysses to readers with authors Gayle Feldman of Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built and Adam Morgan of A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature.

Together, Feldman and Morgan will explore two pivotal figures who reshaped American publishing, challenged the boundaries of literary freedom, and fought for readers’ right to read James Joyce’s Ulysses. From Bennett Cerf’s founding of Random House and his championing of bold new voices, to Margaret C. Anderson’s defiance of censorship and her groundbreaking magazine The Little Review, the discussion will illuminate how both helped define what we read and why it matters today.

🗓 Tuesday, March 17
🕕 6:30 PM ET
📍 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library + Livestream

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03/11/2026

Next week | Author Terao Tetsuya joins us with Jeremy Tiang and Kevin Wang, translator of Tetsuya’s collection of linked short stories Spent Bullets, centered on an engineering genius who descends deeper into despair while rising higher on the professional ladder.

The hard-working geniuses of Spent Bullets are the crème de la crème of the meritocracy. Educated in the best schools in Taiwan, they move to lucrative positions in America’s big tech, reaching the pinnacle of career prestige. Yet there is a dark side to their relentless focus and achievements.

A searing look at our time and culture, Terao Tetsuya exposes the absurdity of striving: to make money, to be a better person, to be someone you’re not. With cool, calculating precision, he illuminates the promise and peril of gifted young people who patiently bear the burdens of their fate.

🗓 Wednesday, April 8
🕕 6 PM ET
💬 語言:以部分中文進行 | In Mandarin with interpretation
📍 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library + Livestream

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03/09/2026

🏙️ Tomorrow night 🏙️ As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, enduring the mistakes of past housing policy. In The Projects, Howard A. Husock explains how we got here, detailing the tragic rise and fall of public housing and the pitfalls of other subsidy programs.

Husock traces the history of public housing to contemporary debates on the government’s role in the housing market. Through interviews with residents, he reveals how public housing transformed the lives of Americans and the physical faces of cities and towns. He ultimately critiques “repair and reform” efforts, making policy recommendations that address the core failings of public housing for the people it was once designed to help.

🗓 TOMORROW, Tuesday, March 10
🕕 6:30 PM ET
📍 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library + Livestream

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02/26/2026

Coming up! Paper engineer and graphic designer Kelli Anderson reveals the technologies and philosophies that have shaped letterforms as captured in her immersive pop-up book Alphabet in Motion, in this interactive evening also featuring curator Camilo Otero.

Ever wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of letters? Open any text editor, email client or design app and you will immediately be bombarded with a buffet of typographic choices. Serif or sans serif? Display or text? Classical or contemporary? Formal or casual?

Featuring 17 stunning interactive pop-ups, this ABC pop-up book explains―as well as demonstrates―the technologies and philosophies that have shaped letterforms through the ages. Readers will learn about ‘60s psychedelic type by projecting light through a phototypesetting pop-up; how screen technology shaped letterforms by turning on and off anti-aliasing; or the aesthetics of typographic modularity by reconfiguring the puzzle pieces of Josef Albers’ Kombinations-Schrift.

Type history is often technical and always visual. It is therefore challenging to fully explain in text or in diagrams alone. The book’s interactive features provide a sensory inroad for curious general readers to grasp how typography has transformed through history (and how lettering can convey a point of view or philosophical stance). A 128-page companion essay section includes an essay further contextualizing each pop-up. Alphabet in Motion puts the reader’s hands, eyes and minds in touch with the meanings behind the typography that surrounds us in our homes, on our screens and on our streets. If you look carefully, you can see the history of the world―from the Bronze Age to the Information Age―in the microcosm of type.

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02/25/2026

Next Tuesday | 1816: London is a hostile place for the newly disembarked Mehrunissa Begum, who’s come to deliver her brother’s letter of inheritance before returning to her comfortable life in Lucknow, India. Only, she can’t find her brother anywhere and has no money for the return trip. With nowhere else to go, Mehr finds refuge in a boardinghouse for Indian maids. If she can’t find her brother, she reasons, she will get a job and start saving.

Mehr is soon hired at the English estate of Mary and Percy Shelley, young artists of burgeoning fame who are on the run from secrets of their own. Mary is brooding and quiet, but takes a curious liking to her new maid, asking her to accompany the Shelleys and her stepsister, Claire—as well as the eccentric Lord Byron and his physician, John Polidori—to Lake Geneva for the summer.

Almost immediately, Mehr notices strange, ghostly events at the villa. The walls breathe, portraits shift, and phantoms appear like unbidden guests who refuse to leave. The weather is fierce and foreboding, showing no signs of softening its relentless pall. And as Mary Shelley begins work on what will become her earth-shattering literary phenomenon, Mehr finds herself trapped in the villa as the rest of its inhabitants descend into madness.

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