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On the Future Prospects for Humanity, by Martin Rees
Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various prospects for the future—good and bad—are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees argues that humanity’s future depends on our taking a very different approach to thinking about and planning for tomorrow.
Nomi Prins: Collusion
Author and journalist Nomi Prins shines a light on the dark conspiracies and unsavory connections within the halls of power along with journalist Rich Benjamin.

The 2008 financial crisis started a chain reaction that boosted the influence of central bankers and caused a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and institutions are overstepping the boundaries of their mandates and directing the flow of money without any restrictions. Meanwhile, the cozy relationship between private and central banking ensures boundless manipulation with government support.

Nomi Prins is a journalist, speaker, respected TV and radio commentator, and former Wall Street executive. The author of six books, including All the Presidents' Bankers, Other People's Money, and It Takes a Pillage, her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Fortune, Mother Jones, Guardian, and Nation, among others. She was a member of Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) Federal Reserve Reform Advisory Council, and is on the advisory board of the whistle-blowing organization ExposeFacts.

Rich Benjamin is an American cultural critic, anthropologist, and author, best known for the non-fiction book Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.
Roxane Gay introduces Not That Bad
Cultural critic and New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay, shares a new anthology.

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture collects original and previously published essays from established and up-and-coming writers, performers (including actors Ally Sheedy and Gabrielle Union), and critics that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, gaslit, insulted, and bullied for speaking out. Searing and heartbreakingly candid, this provocative collection both reflects the world we live in and offers a call to arms insisting that not that bad must no longer be good enough.
Appel Salon | Alan Hollinghurst
"London seemed almost physically to represent new possibilities...I had a very excited and strong sense that I was going to be a Londoner. And I think it quite quickly suggested itself as a subject to me."—Alan Hollinghurst

The Man Booker Prize-winner, Alan Hollinghurst, discusses his latest novel, The Sparsholt Affair with Dimitri Nasrallah.
Reading Without Walls: Ilyasah Shabazz + Mahogany L. Browne
Writer and activist Ilyasah Shabazz, author of “Betty Before X,” and poet Mahogany L. Browne, author of “Black Girl Magic,” discuss their work with Princess Weekes of The Mary Sue. This conversation is presented in partnership with the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group and the Reading Without Walls Challenge.

About Reading Without Walls: Former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Gene Luen Yang calls us all to READ WITHOUT WALLS, exploring books about characters who look or live differently than you, topics you haven’t discovered, or formats that you haven’t tried. READING WITHOUT WALLS promotes diversity and opens readers’ eyes to new ideas and experiences. In this divided time in our nation’s history, READING WITHOUT WALLS is an inclusive way to spread appreciation and understanding for others — and to learn new and exciting things.

Reading Without Walls is happening now, and anyone can participate — teachers, librarians, book-sellers, and readers. Just find something new and different to read — and let books open up the world around you.

Join us as these writers share their work and discuss the importance of reading a diverse selection of stories.
Jesmyn Ward: Sing, Unburied, Sing
Two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward joins us for a discussion of her most recent novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, a profound Southern odyssey and searing chronicle of twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward shows us life on the gulf coast of Mississippi for one American family, as they travel through the South. Ward is the author of the critically acclaimed titles Salvage the Bones and Men We Reaped, and editor of The Fire This Time. She will be joined in conversation with Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation.
Philip Pullman in conversation with Michael Sheen
Closing the show, an exclusive conversation between award-winning actor Michael Sheen and much-loved His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman.

Michael narrated the audiobook of Philip's latest novel La Belle Sauvage, the much-anticipated return to the world of Lyra and Oxford, which won 2017's Waterstones Book of the Year.
Ken Bensinger, "Red Card"
Ken Bensinger, an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News, talks about the U.S. government's case against FIFA and some of the organization's most powerful leaders.
Valeria Luiselli: Interpreters can help children from getting deported
Valeria Luiselli reads from her new book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, about her experience interpreter in a federal immigration court in New York City.
On Civil Society | Yanis Varoufakis: Has capitalism failed us?
"Money is a political construct, a construct of community, a construct of a society, that must be political. And if we do not control this, by definition, political force, because money is a force—it makes the world go round, as we know—if this political force it not controlled democratically, then we do not live in a democracy."

Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance for Greece at the height of Europe's debt crisis, was at the Appel Salon as part of the TPL's #OnCivilSociety series, to talk about his new book "Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism",

In conversation with Ana Serrano, Chair of the Open Democracy Project.
Meg Wolitzer | Appel Salon
"...the world will whittle your daughter down, but a mother never should, and my mother never did. And I find that is feminism in action."—Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer in conversation with Nathalie Atkinson at the Toronto Reference Library.
Rachel Kushner | Appel Salon
"I think it's not good art to just sort of shove misery in people's faces."—Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner appeared at the Toronto Reference Library to discuss her book The Mars Room with Jessica Allen.
Robin DiAngelo, Erin Trent Johnson + Aaron Morrison | White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, author of the new book “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” sits down with Community Equity Partners CEO Erin Trent Johnson and Mic Senior Writer Aaron Morrison to discuss one of the most daunting barriers to true racial equality.

In this groundbreaking and timely book, antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of "white fragility". Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo explores how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.

Robin DiAngelo received her PhD in Multicultural Education from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2004. She earned tenure at Westfield State University, where she has taught courses in Multicultural Teaching, Inter-group Dialogue Facilitation, Cultural Diversity & Social Justice, and Anti-Racist Education. Her work on White Fragility has been featured or cited in Salon, NPR, Slate, Alternet, the Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Seattle Times. For over 20 years, DiAngelo has been a consultant and trainer on issues of racial and social justice, working with a wide-range of organizations including private, non-profit, and governmental. She was recently appointed to co-design the City of Seattle’s Race and Social Justice Initiative Anti-Racism training (with Darlene Flynn).

Erin Trent Johnson is the CEO and principal coach, facilitator, and consultant for Community Equity Partners (CEP) and serves as the Senior Advisor for The Equity Lab. Erin works with organizations in the education, non-profit, government, and tech arenas that are committed to creating equitable and inclusive practices. Erin’s approach to coaching and leadership development helps organization leaders notice, name and disrupt systemic barriers to equity and inclusion within themselves and their organizations. As a coach and facilitator, Erin provides a dynamic learning experience for leaders that fosters personal and professional growth, transforms organizational culture and leads to community impact. Erin has nearly fifteen years of experience and leadership in education, community organizing and community development which has prepared her to support leaders in solving their own problems of equity and community building.
2018 PEN World Voices Festival: Fighting Fake News
Journalists fight against the propagation of fake news while being accused of it themselves every day. Media luminaries Yamiche Alcindor, Peter Barbey, and William Kristol discuss how they do just that in a panel moderated by PEN America CEO, Suzanne Nossel.
Alastair Campbell interviews Caitlin Moran | British GQ
In print and in person, one voice in Britain's chattering classes talks louder, faster and with more clarity than any other. And yet, somehow remarkably, not a word goes to waste. Here, the journalist and author displays her verbal dexterity on cyber-ethics, pornography and the cults of Corbyn and Kardashian.

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