Drawing on his experience as a fiction writer and as a writer and producer for television, Charles Yu discusses his acclaimed novel Interior Chinatown (winner […]

In The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights, Dorothy Wickenden - longtime executive editor at The New Yorker - traces the […]

The Public's Radio's Ian Donnis moderates a panel discussion about the state of the state of Rhode Island. Topics will include the upcoming Rhode Island […]

In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on […]

Princeton University classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta will be joined by Brown University classicist Johanna Hanink to discuss what, if anything, the study of the ancient […]

This program is reserved for members of the Athenæum. In 1848, famed American writer and master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe spent time at […]

The Providence North Burial Ground is the largest public cemetery in Rhode Island and the second largest green space in Providence, but only recently has […]

Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous artists of all time, yet few are aware that his legacy was secured through the efforts […]

Filmmaker and director Betsy West (RBG) joins us to discuss her new project, My Name Is Pauli Murray. Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to […]

This program is reserved for members of the Athenæum. A dark, unassuming painting which has hung in the Art Room for more than 100 years […]

Author and journalist Sasha Issenberg discusses The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage. On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state […]

Named one of the most important writers of the 20th century by Writer's Digest, Barbara Kingsolver is the bestselling author of over a dozen books, […]