Covid Guidelines for Physical Events

We continue to follow government guidelines regarding Covid-19 safety at the Festival. We encourage masks for indoor events. Please be aware that select indoor programs might require masks and we ask for your cooperation in these cases.
12:00 am EST
September 26, 2026

Fiction

60th Anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth

60th Anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth Featuring Cornell West

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Brooklyn Law School
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The New York Review Of Books
NYU
Poetry Society Of America
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture