Author Kate Zambreno and TNR’s literary editor, Laura Marsh, discuss Kate’s debut novel, Drifts.
Livestreamed on May 21 from 7p.m. to 8p.m. |
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Beguiling and compulsively readable, Drifts is an intimate portrait of reading, writing, and creative obsession. At work on a novel that is overdue to her publisher, spending long days alone with her restless terrier, corresponding ardently with fellow writers, the novel’s narrator grows obsessed with the challenge of writing the present tense, of capturing time itself. Entranced by the work of Rilke, Dürer, Chantal Akerman, and others, she photographs the residents and strays of her neighborhood, haunts bookstores and galleries, and records her thoughts in a yellow notebook that soon subsumes her work on the novel. As winter closes in, a series of disturbances—the appearances and disappearances of enigmatic figures, the burglary of her apartment—leaves her distracted and uncertain…until an intense and tender disruption changes everything.
A story of artistic ambition, personal crisis, and the possibilities and failures of literature, Drifts is a dramatic step forward for one of our most-watched writers. |
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In celebration of the premiere of the new documentary based on Thomas Piketty’s
Capital in the Twenty-First Century. |
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| The New Republic and Kino Lorber Present a virtual roundtable discussion. |
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| Livestreamed on May 3 at 3 p.m. |
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| Thomas Piketty, Economist, Author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Capital and Ideology, Professor at EHESS and the Paris School of Economics. |
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| Gillian Tett, Chair of the Editorial Board and Editor-at-Large (US) of the Financial Times, Co-Founder of Moral Money |
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| Ian Bremmer, Global Political Risk Advisor, President and Founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media |
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| Moderated by: Chris Lehmann–Editor, The New Republic |
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century is being released on May 1 in “virtual cinemas” that directly support independent theaters temporarily closed due to COVID-19. Find your local theater to support here: kinomarquee.com/capital
Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty (which sold over three million copies worldwide and landed Piketty on Time's list of most influential people), this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today’s growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world’s most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into our future. |
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