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 New York Review contributors Patricia Williams, Hari Kunzru, and Jacqueline Rose for a conversation about the issues of race, sex, immigration, and how the identity of the next president reflects who we are as a nation.
The conversation will last approximately 90 minutes, including a question-and-answer period.
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 co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, a co-founder 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 is a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, the 1997 Reith Lecturer for the BBC, and an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. Her books include The Alchemy of Race and Rights, The Rooster’s Egg, Seeing a ColorBlind 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.
