The Records of the New York Institute for the Humanities document the formation and early years of the Institute, the activities of Institute Fellows, and the seminars, lectures, and other events sponsored by the Institute.
They range from 1976 to 2025 and include such distinguished voices as Susan Sontag, Carl Schorske, Alfred Kazin, Czesław Miłosz, Oliver Sacks, Joseph Brodsky, Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, Ada Louise Huxtable, Mary Douglas, Nadine Gordimer, and Linda Nochlin.