The Marathon Don't Stop 10/22/21 - 4:00pm - 10/22/21 - 5:00pm Rob Kenner First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip-hop mogul, artist, and activist Image
Tragic City & Machete 10/22/21 - 5:30pm - 10/22/21 - 6:30pm Tomás Morín Clemonce Heard Poets Clemonce Heard and Tomás Morin discuss their recent collections Image
Speaking of Race 10/22/21 - 7:00pm - 10/22/21 - 8:00pm Celeste Headlee How to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support. Image
Unfollow Me 10/22/21 - 8:30pm - 10/22/21 - 9:30pm Jill Louise Busby An intimate, impertinent, and incisive collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy Image
Friends of UW-Madison Libraries Book Sale 10/23/21 - 9:00am - 10/23/21 - 1:00pm Friends of UW Libraries Image
Education for Democracy 10/23/21 - 10:30am - 10/23/21 - 11:30am Chad Alan Goldberg Jason Smith An investigation of the value of state universities and humanities education as a public good Image
Empire of Rubber 10/23/21 - 10:30am - 10/23/21 - 11:30am Gregg Mitman An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden rubber empire in Liberia. Image
When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People 10/23/21 - 11:00am - 10/23/21 - 12:00pm Steven Nadler Lawrence Shapiro Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality. Image
How the Arts Can Save Education 10/23/21 - 12:00pm - 10/23/21 - 1:00pm Erica Halverson a blueprint for using the arts to rethink what good learning, teaching, and curriculum can be. Image
Shoulder Season 10/23/21 - 12:00pm - 10/23/21 - 1:00pm Christina Clancy An evocative and nostalgic tale about a small-town girl turned Playboy Bunny. Image
God, Human, Animal, Machine 10/23/21 - 1:30pm - 10/23/21 - 2:30pm Meghan O'Gieblyn The core questions of existence--identity, knowledge, life itself--urgently require rethinking. Image
Reprieve 10/23/21 - 1:30pm - 10/23/21 - 2:30pm James Han Mattson A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror Image
Ordinary Girls 10/23/21 - 3:00pm - 10/23/21 - 4:00pm Jaquira Díaz Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age Image
Shape 10/23/21 - 3:00pm - 10/23/21 - 4:00pm Jordan Ellenberg A far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry. Image
Fans 10/23/21 - 4:00pm - 10/23/21 - 5:00pm Larry Olmsted Why being a sports fan is good for us individually and is a force for positive change in society. Image
Revelations in Air 10/23/21 - 4:30pm - 10/23/21 - 5:30pm Jude Stewart An extraordinary, strange, beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of of the senses. Image
The Breaker 10/23/21 - 4:30pm - 10/23/21 - 5:30pm Nicholas Petrie If Peter and June solve this mystery, Peter's record will be scrubbed clean. Image
Godspeed 10/23/21 - 6:00pm - 10/23/21 - 7:00pm Nickolas Butler Why is it being built here, and why so quickly? Image
Redeeming Justice 10/23/21 - 7:30pm - 10/23/21 - 8:30pm Jarrett Adams An unforgettable firsthand account of the limits—and possibilities—of our country’s system of law. Image Image
The Ex-Girlfriend of my Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend 10/23/21 - 9:00pm - 10/23/21 - 10:00pm Maddy Court advice on love, dating, and friendship by and for queer women and people of marginalized genders Image
Fuzz 10/24/21 - 11:00am - 10/24/21 - 12:00pm Mary Roach An irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. Image
Wisconsin People & Ideas 2021 Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading 10/28/21 - 7:00pm - 10/28/21 - 8:00pm Jennifer Fandel Paula Schulz David Southward Kim Suhr Allison Uselman Yvette Viets Flaten Jason Smith the winners of the statewide 2021 Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction & Poetry Contests Image
Giannis 11/2/21 - 7:00pm - 11/2/21 - 8:00pm Mirin Fader The story of Giannis Antetokounmpo's extraordinary rise. Image
Go Big Read: Transcendent Kingdom 11/3/21 - 7:00pm - 11/3/21 - 8:30pm Yaa Gyasi Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing. Image