Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. A deeply felt meditation on race, sex, class and American culture, it describes the contradictions of her comparatively privileged upbringing among Chicago's upper-class Black community. She is alsoRead more
Dickens' own edited version of his beloved ghost story read by three professional actors in Dickensian attire. The cast is headed up by English stage actor James Dyne who has traveled the past 15 Christmas seasons with his classic characterizationRead more
Madeline Miller's Circe - an uncompromising portrait of a super-heroine who wields divine power - makes Homer pertinent to the 21st century. The novel has garnered praise equal to her previous work of fiction based on Homer's epic poem, the Orange PrizeRead more
John Avlon, author and Senior Political Analyst at CNN, Elliot Ackerman, novelist and former Marine who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Lynsey Addario, photojournalist who has documented every major conflict of her generation, discuss the desire to communicate andRead more
Join the Charleston Symphony for an evening of Chamber music at the picturesque City Gallery at Joe Riley Waterfront Park. This performance features an eclectic program featuring musicians from every section of the Charleston Symphony and explores the vast colors and styles of someRead more
Sounds of the South is a symposium focused on the evolving historical and contemporary music of the American South. The symposium features lectures by renowned historians, ethnomusicologists, musicians, and Southbound photographers, with presentations on subjects ranging from praise-house history toRead more
Ramie Targoff's biography of Vittoria Colonna is a timely study of the first published female Italian poet, a close friend of Michelangelo. With a novelist's flair she brings this remarkable and influential woman to life, while also dissecting an entireRead more
One of journalism's legendary editors, Tina Brown kept diaries throughout her eight years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair. The result is an insightful, intimate, fascinating and laugh-out-loud-funny social history of the excessive eighties. Tina Brown is founder of theRead more
In an illuminating exercise, Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World, interrogates the Collected Works to construct a checklist of tyranny based on Shakespeare's plays. Can he demonstrate that the power dynamics in Shakespeare's dramas have contemporary resonance? Stephen Greenblatt, HarvardRead more
