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Live Storytelling: The Original Virtual Reality By Jon Spelman

Smithsonian Libraries Art of the Book Lecture Series, Part II Live Storytelling: The Original Virtual Reality by Jon Spelman, performer...

Jewish Literature Live! Presents Sam Lipsyte

George Washington University’s Department of English and Jewish Literature Live proudly present a reading by Sam Lipsyte on Thursday, March 30,...

Book of the Week for March 12, 2017

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

A foster teenager and a well-off elderly widow discover poignant similarities in their pasts.

Book of the Week for March 03, 2017

Stoner by John Williams

A lonely World War I era farm boy defies his parents, and becomes a professor with dreams that never happen.

Jewish Literature Live! Presents Etgar Keret

George Washington University’s Department of English and Jewish Literature Live proudly present a reading by Etgar Keret on Thursday, March 9,...

Acta’s Higher Ed Now Podcast Featuring David Bruce Smith & Michael Poliakoff

David Bruce Smith, founder and president of The Grateful American™ Foundation, rejoins Higher Ed Now with ACTA President Michael Poliakoff...

Acta’s Higher Ed Now Podcast Featuring David Bruce Smith & Michael Poliakoff

Book of the Week for February 27, 2017

Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

Scout comes of age, and so do her prejudices.

Book of the Week for February 20, 2017

The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz

Acerbic humor from the 1970s and 1980s by the author of Social Studies and Metropolitan Life.

Book of the Week for February 13, 2017

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A gaggle of literati moves to 1920s Paris.

Jewish Literature Live Presents Elizabeth Poliner

George Washington University’s Department of English and Jewish Literature Live proudly present a reading by Elizabeth Poliner on Thursday, February...

Book of the Week for January 31, 2017

Quartet In Autumn by Barbara Pym

A story of how four older people—connected only casually— manage their isolation.