The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2016
2:00pm
The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
6:30pm
Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in Sept...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Guido Ruggiero underscored his position as one of the world’s leading authorities on the Italian Renaissance with his most recent...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
6:30pm
Until the late 18th century, Shakespeare’s works were known in America only on the page – and not the stage. Felicia Hardison Londré,...
Signature Event
Monday, March 14, 2016
6:30pm
For two years, Harvard University social sciences professor Matthew Desmond embedded himself in two poor neighborhoods in Milwaukee,...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 10, 2016
6:30pm
Cote Smith sets his debut novel in the prison town of Leavenworth, Kansas, drawing from his experiences growing up there....
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
6:30pm
Author Greg Weiner maintains that today’s politically polarized America badly misses Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former presidential...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 14, 2016
1:00pm
In Person
Islamism – or political Islam, the movement to infuse Islam in all areas of life – is hardly a 21st century phenomenon. Winston S. Churchill was a...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 11, 2016
6:30pm
Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare rose to prominence centuries and continents apart. But one of America’s greatest presidents felt a real connec...