NYIH Fellows Forums 2013-2025

09/13/2013: Ian Buruma Year Zero: A History of 1945
09/20/2013: Peter Maass State of Surveillance
09/27/2013: James McCourt, with Wayne Koestenbaum On a memoir of New York in the 1950s
10/04/2013: Molly Haskell On a memoir of sibling’s gender transition
10/11/2013: Eric Klinenberg Hurricane Sandy, Climate Change, and the Future of New York
10/18/2013: Jenny Davidson Reading Style: A Life of Reading in Sentences
11/01/2013: Elizabeth Rubin Love and Scotch Tape: The Hunt for Joseph Kony and the Consequences of Altruism
11/08/2013: Nicolai Ourossoff Grappling with Modernity: Writing the History of Twentieth-Century Architecture
11/14/2013: T.J. Clark A Room of One’s Own: Reflections on Picasso in 1932
11/15/2013: Larrissa MacFarquhar Saintly People and Why Novelists Can’t Stand Them
11/22/2013: Graham Robb Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
12/06/2013: Alondra Nelson The Social Life of DNA
12/13/2013: David Runciman The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis since World War I
01/31/2014: Damion Searls Who Is Uwe Johnson (And Why Should We Read Him Today?)
02/07/2014: Greg Grandin "Who Ain't a Slave": Slavery in Fact and Herman Melville's Fiction
02/14/2014: Masha Gessen and David Remnick Putin's Russia--Pussy Riot and Sochi
02/28/2014: Nicholas Leman The Transaction Society
03/07/2014: Betty Medsger The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
03/14/2014: Eric Bogosian Operation Nemesis, the Armenian Underground. and Avenging the Genocide
03/28/2014: Ulrich Baer The Rilke Alphabet
01/11/2014: David Bromwich The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
04/21/2014: Kathy Halbreich Alibis: The Art of Sigmar Polke (with onsite tour of the Polke retrospective at MoMA)
04/25/2014: James Shapiro Shakespeare in America
05/02/2014: Lynne Cooke Outside In: The Ongoing Dynamic between Outlier Artists and the American Mainstream Art World
09/12/2014: Ta-Nehisi Coates The Case for Reparations
09/19/2014: Ruth Franklin Beyond the Lottery: Writing the Life of Shirley Jackson
09/26/2014: Peter Unger Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy
10/10/2014: Dana Goldstein The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession
10/17/2014: Maya Jasanoff The Worlds of Joseph Conrad
10/24/2014: Greil Marcus The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in 10 Songs
10/30/2014: Donna De Salvo How to Build a Museum in 2014 [with onsite tour of the new Whitney Museum
10/31/2014: Josiah McElheny Paul Scheerbart and Glass! Love!! And Perpetual Motion!!!
11/07/2014: Fred Kaplan Obama or History? ISIS and U.S. Foreign Policy
11/14/2014: Kieran Long Rapid Response Curating at the V&A
11/21/2014: Sarah Thornton 33 Artists in 3 Acts
12/05/2014: Mark Greif Age of the ‘Crisis of Man’ in Fiction and Thought
01/29/2015: Michael Benson Cosmographics: Picturing Space Through Time
02/06/2015: Peter Filkins Against the Wall: H.G. Adler’s Shoah Trilogy
02/13/2015: Mitchell Cohen, Alexander Stille, Philippe Boulet-Gercourt France After Charlie Hebdo”
02/20/2015: Graciela Mochkofsky The Prophet of the Andes and the Rise of a New Judaism in Latin America
02/26/2015: Martha Hodes Mourning Lincoln
03/06/2015: Morris Dickstein Living the Life, Writing the Memoir
03/13/2015: Rebecca Falkoff Who Is Elena Ferrante. Really.
04/10/2015: Susan Brind Morrow The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts
04/17/2015: Michael Massing Erasmus, Luther, and the Rupture of Europe
04/24/2015: David Oshinsky Bellevue, Public Health, and the Medical Humanities
05/01/2015: Mona Elhawaty Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
09/11/2015: Terry Castle Not- A-Woman--A Romance
09/18/2015: Peter Lunenfeld Who’s Afraid of the Digital Humanities?
09/25/2015: Paul Reitter Anti-Education: Nietzsche’s Lectures on Education
10/02/2015: Jenny Livingston, A.O. Scott Paris Is Burning at 25
10/09/2015: Dale Jamieson, Bonnie Nadzam Love in the Anthropocene
10/16/2015: Mark Padmore Song as Craft
10/23/2015: Jim Livingston F**k Work
11/ 06/2015: David Hare The Blue Touch: On Bewilderment and Creativity
11/ 09/2015: Mary Beard Not Built in a Day: Writing the History of Ancient Rome
11/13/2015: Leo Treitler On Mimesis
11/20/2015: Michelle Goldberg, Jelani Cobb, Rebecca Traister Roundtable on Politics Today
12/04/2015: Michelle Dean, Laura Miller Sharp: Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
01/29/2016: Robert Boynton The Invitation Only Zone: North Korea’s Abduction Project
02/05/2016: Rebecca Solnit, Garnette Cadogan, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
02/12/2016: Scott Shapiro Hugo Grotius and the Worst Crime of All: War and the Origins of International Law
02/26/2016: Ben Lerner The Hatred of Poetry
03/04/2016: Rebecca Traister All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
03/11/2016: Laura Secor Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
04/01/2016: Laura Poitras Tour of “Astro Noise,” Whitney Museum of American Art
04/08/2016: David Mikics Bellow’s People
04/29/2016: Judith Weschler Screening of Aby Warburg: Metamorphosis and Memory
05/06/2016: Mark Lilla The Shipwrecked Mind: Political Reactionaries Past and Present
09/16/2016: Yasmine El Rashidi Chronicle of a Last Summer: Cairo Before and After the Arab Spring
09/23/2016: Shimon Dotan The Settlers: A Screening and Discussion
09/30/2016: James O’Higgins The Difficulties of Hegel
10/07/2016: Robert Kanigel Eyes on the Street: Revisiting Jane Jacobs
10/14/2016: Jelani Cobb, Michelle Goldberg, Katha Pollitt Roundtable on Politics Today
10/21/2016: Vivian Gornick On Re-Reading
10/28/2016: Hayden Herrera, Wendy Lesser, Arthur Lubow The Lives of the Artists
11/11/2016: Daniel Markovits Meritocracy and Its Discontents
11/18/2016: Jan-Werner Müller What Is Populism?
12/02/2016: Kate Orff Toward an Urban Ecology
12/09/2016: Anthony Gottlieb, Carlin Romano Whither the Philosophical Canon?
01/27/2017: Megan Marshall The Size of Our Abidance: Elizabeth Bishop
02/03/2017: Lawrence Weschler, Walter Murch Waves Passing in the Dark: On Astrophysics
02/10/2017: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Island People: The Caribbean and the World
02/17/2017: Susie Linfield What’s the Matter with Uncle Noam?
02/24/2017: Phillip Lopate Mother and Son, a Memoir
03/03/2017: Brendan Nyhan Fact-Checking and Fake News, Election 2016
03/17/2017: Frances Wilson Thomas De Quincey, Murder, and the Fine Art of Biography
03/24/2017: Kim Phillips-Fein Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
03/31/2017: Laura Kipnis Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
04/07/2017: Frances Fitzgerald Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
04/21/2017: James Forman, Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in America
04/28/2017: Rochelle Gurstein What Is... Or What Was... Or Is There Such a Thing as a Classic?
05/05/2017: Brent Hayes Edwards Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
09/15/2017: Helen Epstein Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror
09/29/2017: Rhonda Garelick Blow-Up: Fashion in the “Age of Terrorism”
10/06/2017: Michael Harris Mathematics Unapologetic but not Unethical
10/13/2017: Mark Greif How to Look at Porn: An Aesthetics of the Present
10/27/2017: Kevin Young Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
11/03/2017: Hisham Matar On Memoir and Libya
11/10/2017: Claus Leggewie, with Ian Buruma Germany in Europe: A “Reflective” Hegemon at the Crossroads
11/17/2017: Joan Scott Sex and Secularism
12/01/2017: Patrick Radden Keefe Whatever You Say, Say Nothing: A Story of Murder and Memory in Belfast
12/08/2017: Yuri Slezkine The House of Government: The Life and Death of the Old Bolsheviks
02/02/2018: Brittney Cooper, Michelle Goldberg, and Rebecca Traister Roundtable on Politics Today
02/09/2018: Dana Polan Ring-a-Ding-Ding!: Styles of Presentation in the Film and Music Performances of Frank Sinatra
02/16/2018: Michael Strevens The Strategic Irrationality of Science
02/23/2018: Wendy Steiner The Loathly Lady: The Opera
03/2/2018: Samuel Moyn Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
03/23/2018: Tracy Heather Strain Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart: A Documentary about Lorraine Hansberry
03/30/2018: Gregory Pardlo Debriefing Air Traffic: A Reading and Discussion
04/04/2018: D. Graham Burnett Interdisciplinarity and Antidisciplinarity: A Discussion of KEYWORDS; For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c.
04/13/2018: Bruce Robbins On The Beneficiary
04/20/2018: Uli Baer Disentangling the Free Speech Debate in the Age of Trump, the Alt-Right, and Campus Protests
04/27/2018: Jim Holt Living: Philosophy vs. Science
09/07/2018: Eric Klinenberg Palaces for the People: Why Libraries Matter
09/21/2018: Rebecca Traister Good and Mad: On Rage and Feminism
09/27/2018: Nuar Alsadir, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Clifford Thompson, Brian Dillon Conversations on the Essay
10/05/2018: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Claus Leggewie Resistance in Europe (moderated by Ian Buruma)
10/19/2018: Robyn Creswell Beirut: Modernism and Its Afterlives
11/09/2018: Siva Vaidyanathan Antisocial Media: Facebook and Democracy
11/16/2018: Catherine Stimpson On Memoir
12/07/2018: Jonathan Lethem West Coast/East Coast
02/01/2019: Elizabeth Holtzman How To Impeach a President
02/15/2019: Scott Shapiro, Sam Moyn, Ross Douthat Does American Conservatism Have a Future?
03/01/2019: Peter Filkins On Biography and History
03/15/2019: Brenda Wineapple The Return of the Repressed, Profiles in Courage, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
03/29/2019: David Rothenberg Nightingales in Berlin
04/12/2019: Sarah Schulman Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT-UP
04/26/2019: Sharon Marcus The Drama of Celebrity
09/13/2019: Alexandra Horowitz Our Dog, Ourselves
09/20/2019: Ben Moser Susan Sontag, a Biography
09/27/2019: J. Hoberman Reagan, Trump, and the Movies (+ TV)
10/04/2019: Corey Robin The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
10/11/2019: Sally Connolly The Life and Work of Thom Gunn
10/18/2019: Larry Shainberg Beckett, a Memoir
10/25/2019: Caitlin Zaloom Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
11/01/2019: John Keene Counternarratives
11/08/2019: Katrina Forrester Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy
11/15/2019: Anne Nelson The Birth and Growth of Right-Wing Media
11/22/2019: David Mikics Stanley Kubrick
12/06/2019: Claus Leggewie The Arts and Resistance: Refugees, Racism, and Rebellion
02/07/2020: Deirdre Bair Beckett, de Beauvoir, and a Biographer’s Memoirs
02/14/2020: Gabe Winslow-Yost and Emily Greenhouse The New York Review of Books Today
02/21/2020: Said Sayrafiezadeh A Political Childhood
03/06/2020: Honor Moore Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury
09/11/2020: Errin Haines, Rebecca Traister, and Michael Tomasky Roundtable on Political Reporting
09/18/2020: Ava Chin, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Ben Lerner, Meghan O’Rourke, and Ta- Nehisi Coates Writing in Uncertain Times: A Roundtable
09/25/2020: Svetlana Alpers Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch
10/02/2020: Alex Ross Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
10/16/2020: Ian Buruma The Churchill Complex
10/30/2020: Martin Puchner The Language of Thieves
11/13/2020: Adam Tooze Covid and Crash: The Global Economic Outlook
11/20/2020: Adam Reuben and James Lasdun Adapting “Trumpet Voluntary”
02/12/2021: Mitzi Angel, Lisa Lucas, John Freeman, and Zoe Pagnamenta The State of Publishing, a Roundtable
02/19/2021: Noah Isenberg and Shelley Frisch Billy Wilder in Vienna and Berlin
02/26/2021: Jason Farago The Art Economy after the Pandemic
03/12/2021: Jed S. Rakoff Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free
03/19/2021: Hermione Lee with Michael Wood Tom Stoppard: A Biography
03/26/2021: Edwin Frank The Novel in the Twentieth Century
04/09/2021: Uli Baer, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Ross Posnock Literary Firsts and the Canon Revisited
04/16/2021: Blake Bailey Writing Philip Roth
04/23/2021: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Place Names of New York
04/30/2021: Louis Menand The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
05/07/2021: Susan Bernofsky Robert Walser, a Biography
10/01/2021: Amia Srinivasan The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century
10/08/2021: Eyal Press and Eliza Griswold Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Toll of Inequality in America
10/15/2021: Mark McGurl, Sharon Marcus, and Christine Smallwood Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
10/23/2021: Amitav Ghosh The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
10/31/2021: Victoria Newhouse New Parks of the 21st Century
11/12/2021: Cathy Curtis The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
11/19/2021: Samuel Moyn Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
12/03/2021: Richard Sennett Stage and Street
12/10/2021: Thomas Sugrue, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Caitlin Zaloom 2020: The Long Year
12/17/2021: Yusef Komunyakaa, Floyd Tunson, and Tomas Doncker Endangered: A Collaboration of Art and Music
01/21/2022: Lewis Gordon Why Fearing Black Consciousness Is a Form of Bad Faith
01/28/2022: Lydia Goehr Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread
02/04/2022: Laura Kipnis Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis
02/18/2022: Meghan O’Rourke The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
03/04/2022: Jennifer Michael Hecht, John Keene, Vijay Seshadri, Camille Rankine and Robert Polito Recent Poetry: A Reading and Roundtable with NYIH Fellows
03/11/2022: Ato Quayson Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature
03/18/2022: David Henkin with Leah Price The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are
03/25/2022: Michael Kazin What It Took To Win: A History of the Democratic Party
04/01/2022: Leonard Barkan with Ben Kafka Reading Shakespeare Reading Me
04/15/2022: Kate Masur Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
04/ 22/2022: Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb, with Paul Elie The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics
05/06/2022: Maya Jasanoff Ancestors: Where Do They Come From, and Why Do We Care?
05/13/2022: Daniel Birnbaum Dr. B
05/20/2022: Masha Gessen and Anand Giridharadas On Russia, Ukraine, and Journalism
09/23/2022: Mitzi Angel The State of Publishing
10/14/2022: Michael Brenson The Place of Art in an Artist’s Biography (On David Smith)
10/20/2022: Ayad Akhtar and Mark Warren The Artist and the Censor 
10/28/2022: Nuar Alsadir and Luis Jaramillo Animal Joy: On Laughter and Resuscitation
11/04/2022: Kiara Barrow, Rebecca Panovka, and Krithika Varagur The Drift
12/02/2022: David Maraniss Jim Thorpe: Path Lit By Lightning
12/09/2022: Kian Tajbakhsh, Azadeh Moaveni, and Laura Secor Dispatches on the Crisis in Iran
01/27/2023: Ross Benjamin and Francine Prose The Diaries of Franz Kafka
02/10/2023: Jennifer Homans and Tamsin Shaw Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century
02/24/2023: Tess Lewis, Edwin Frank, and Jessi Jezewska Stevens Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs
03/10/2023: Ava Chin and Hua Hsu Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
03/24/2023: Ian Buruma The Collaborators
04/07/2023: Gerald Howard The Man Who Knew Everybody: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature
04/12/2023: Mitchell Cohen The Liberal Protests in Israel: A First-Hand Report and Conversation
04/21/2023: Martha Hodes My Hijacking
05/05/2023: Adam Shatz and Eric Banks Writers & Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination 
05/12/2023: Sarah Bakewell Humanly Possible
05/19/2023: Scott Shapiro Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Internet Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks
09/08/2023: Jonathan Lethem “My Life in a Gentrifiction”: The Invention of Boerum Hill and a Portrait of L.J. Davis, Helen Buckler, and Jervis Anderson
09/22/2023: Jeremy Eichler and André Aciman Time’s Echo: War, Music, and Memory
10/06/2023: Clare Carlisle and Michael Wood The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life
10/13/2023: Samuel Moyn Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
10/20/2023: Nikhil Goyal Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
10/27/2023: Michael Miller, Laura Kipnis, and Becca Rothfeld Roundtable on the State of the Book Review
11/10/2023: Tim Parks On Pasolini and Translation
11/17/2023: D. Graham Burnett The Great Empty Cup: Theorizing Attention in the Age of Human Fracking
12/01/2023: Daniel Libeskind and James E. Young The Path of Light: Aspects of Recent Work
01/19/2024: Sherry Turkle Artificial Intimacy
02/02/2024: Adam Shatz and Tabetha Ewing The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Life of Frantz Fanon
02/15/2024: Eric Klinenberg and Ava Chin 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
02/23/2024: Robert Boyers and Rosanna Warren Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner
03/08/2024: Damion Searls Translating Philosophy: The Case of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
03/22/2024: Rachel Cohen Writing Lives: A Chance Meeting
03/29/2024: Gregory Pardlo and Rowan Ricardo Phillips Poets in Conversation: Spectral Evidence and Silver
04/04/2024: Richard Sennett The Performer
04/05/2024: Lynn Gumpert and Debra Bricker Balken Curators Tour of “Americans In Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962”
04/19/2024: James Marcus On Emerson
04/26/2024: Merve Emre and Michel Chaouli Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins 
05/10/2024: Stefanos Geroulanos and Gideon Lewis-Kraus The Invention of Prehistory
05/17/2024: Rochelle Gurstein Reconsidering the Relativism of Taste
05/24/2024: Anna Shechtman and Ben Kafka Civilization Is at the Cross-Words
09/05/2024: Honor Moore and Vivian Gornick A Termination
09/06/2024: Michael S. Roth and Uli Baer On the Campus Protests and Academic “Neutrality”
09/20/2024: Phillip Lopate and Clifford Thompson A Passion for Art House Cinema
10/04/2024: Damion Searls The Philosophy of Translation
10/18/2024: Siva Vaidhyanathan Can Democracy Survive Artificial Intelligence?
11/01/2024: Peter Filkins and Joshua Cohen Elias Canetti's Politics of Power, Memory, and Deathy
11/15/2024: Edwin Frank with Christine Smallwood and Gerry Howard Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
12/06/2024: Wendy Steiner and Lydia Goehr The Beauty of Choice: On Women, Art, and Freedom
12/13/2024: André Aciman and Lloyd Lynford Roman Year
01/31/2025: Ruth Franklin in conversation with Martha Hodes The Many Lives of Anne Frank
02/14/2025: Sharon Cameron The Likeness of Things Unlikely: The Poetics of Incommensurability
02/28/2025: Sophia Rosenfeld in conversation with Maya Jasanoff The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
03/14/2025: Jerrold E. Seigel, Remaking the World: European Distinctiveness and the Transformation of Politics, Culture, and the Economy
03/21/2025: Elizabeth Kendall in Conversation with Krithika Varagur Balanchine Finds His America