The New York Review of Books presents
Mirror Issues: How the President Reflects the State of the Nation

a conversation with
Hari Kunzru, Jacqueline Rose, and Patricia Williams

An online event starting at 1:00 PM EDT, October 17, 2024

The New York Review of Books presents the third installment in a series of online events in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. Join the award-winning writers and scholars Hari Kunzru, Jacqueline Rose, and Patricia Williams for a discussion on race, gender, the psyche, and how the identity of the next president reflects the state of the nation.

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Registration for this event will close at 4 PM, October 16, 2024. The conversation will last approximately ninety minutes, including a question-and-answer period. Suggested event pricing is $10; flexible pricing options are available. All registrants will have access to a recording of the event.

Hari Kunzru is the author of seven novels: Blue Ruin, Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The Impressionist. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the “Easy Chair” column for Harper’s Magazine. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.

Jacqueline Rose is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature, and the politics and ideology of Israel–Palestine. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, States of Fantasy, The Question of Zion, and, most recently, Women in Dark Times. She is the codirector of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, a cofounder of Independent Jewish Voices, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Literary Society.

Patricia J. Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law Emerita at Columbia Law School and University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University. She is a pioneer of the law and literature movement and a scholar of feminism and race in American jurisprudence. For two decades, she wrote the “Diary of a Mad Law Professor” column for The Nation magazine. She was the 1997 Reith Lecturer for the BBC and is a MacArthur Fellowship recipient and an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. Her books include The Alchemy of Race and Rights, The Rooster’s Egg, Seeing a Color-Blind Future, Open House, Giving a Damn, and, most recently, The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies and The Spirit of the Law.

More conversations from this series

The Climate Election: Fighting for a Greener Future
Bill McKibben and Rhiana Gunn-Wright, moderated by Willa Glickman
October 16, 6:30 PM EDT

What If He Wins? A Conversation About Trump and the Law
 Mark Danner, Pamela Karlan, and Fintan O’Toole
October 24, 5:00 PM EDT

‘For Our Freedom and Yours’: Ukraine, Europe, and the US Election
Timothy Garton Ash and Timothy Snyder
October 30, 4:00 PM EDT

All of our upcoming election events can be found on this Eventbrite page.

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