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  • February 2026

  • Thu 19

    Perry Anderson on World War I and the present international crisis, in conversation with Tony Wood

    February 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New […]

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  • March 2026

  • Thu 19

    Tony Tulathimutte on gender and comedy in fiction, in conversation with Hermione Hoby

    March 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. He’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, and has written for The Paris […]

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  • April 2026

  • Thu 23

    Alyssa Battistoni on capitalism and the politics of nature, in conversation with Benjamin Kunkel

    April 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Alyssa Battistoni is a professor of political science at Barnard College. She is the author of Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton UP 2025) and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why […]

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  • May 2026

  • Thu 21

    Paul Reitter on translating Marx’s Capital, in conversation with Arne Höcker

    May 21 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Paul Reitter is Professor in German Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Bambi’s Jewish Roots and Other Essays on German-Jewish Culture (Bloomsbury, 2015), On the Origins […]

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  • June 2026

  • Thu 18

    Jeff Sharlet on our slow civil war, in conversation with Nathan Schneider

    June 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Trident Booksellers & Cafe 940 Pearl St., Boulder, CO, United States

    Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times bestselling author or editor of eight books. His latest is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War (2023), a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for […]

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  • August 2026

  • Thu 20

    Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein’s afterlife, in conversation with Claire Kelley

    August 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (2020) and Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (2025). She has held fellowships at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, […]

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  • November 2026

  • Thu 19

    danah boyd and Colette Perold on the federal bureaucracy

    November 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    danah boyd is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society, with an eye towards how structural inequities shape […]

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