Upcoming Online Events and New York Review Seminars

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The New York Review is pleased to present a selection of online discussions and seminars for November and beyond, featuring Fintan O’Toole, Daniel Mendelsohn, Edwin Frank, and more. Sign up at our links below.   The last seminar from Edwin Frank’s “Political Novel” series Edwin Frank on H.G. Wells and Ursula K. Le Guin Three weekly sessions beginning Monday, November 3, 2025 Science fiction has exercised a powerful shaping influence on the modern political novel. H.G. Wells’s breakthrough novella The Time Machine exposes the mirage of progress and in The Island of Dr. Moreau, an inspiration for Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as well as Orwell’s Animal Farm, he depicts a dystopia driven both by colonialist exploitation and scientific enlightenment. Taking off from Wells, our final seminar will turn to Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, in which anarchist collectivism and capitalist liberalism vie in the infinitude of outer space. Three one-hour sessions: November 3, 10, and 17. All sessions will start at 7 PM EST. Full members and auditors will have access to recordings of each session,  which may be viewed after the live sessions conclude. Register for Wells / Le Guin   The next seminar from Daniel Mendelsohn’s “Drama Queens” series   Daniel Mendelsohn on Greek Tragedy Three weekly sessions beginning Wednesday, November 5, 2025 The three great Athenian tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—gave a powerful new expressiveness and a profound interiority to the heroines of myth. In this three-week course, we’ll cover Agamemnon, where Aeschylus gives Clytemnestra a notable complexity, at once deeply sympathetic and horrifyingly violent; Sophocles’ Electra—a remarkably acute portrayal of Clytemnestra's traumatized young daughter, Electra; and Hecuba and Trojan Women by Euripides, famous above all in antiquity for his portrayals of “women on the verge.” Three one-hour sessions: November 5, 12, and 19. All sessions will start at 7pm EST. Full members and auditors will have access to recordings of each session,  which may be viewed after the live sessions conclude. Register for Greek Tragedies   Our next panel discussion with Fintan O’Toole The Emergency Court Fintan O’Toole in Conversation with David Cole and Pamela Karlan Thursday, November 6, 2025, 5 PM EST Join the Review’s Advising Editor Fintan O’Toole for a wide-ranging conversation on The Supreme Court with New York Review contributors David Cole and Pamela Karlan. This online event is pay-what-you-wish (with a suggested fee of $10) and open to the public. Register Now   Amanda Fortini and Meghan Daum discuss Jan Kerouac’s Baby Driver Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 5 PM EST Join Amanda Fortini, who wrote the introduction to the NYRB Classics edition of Baby Driver, and Meghan Daum, essayist and author of The Catastrophe Hour, for a virtual discussion of Jan Kerouac’s life, writing, and legacy. This online event is free and open to the public. Reserve Your Spot   “Drama Queens” will resume in 2026, but you may register for them now at the links below.   Madame Bovary and Italian Opera  Madame Bovary, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata, and Madame Butterfly Three sessions, starting Wednesday, January 7, 2026 Register for Operas   Twentieth-Century Theater  Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee Four sessions, starting Wednesday, January 28, 2026 Register for Twentieth-Century Theater     Politics   Literature   Arts   Ideas You are receiving this message because you signed up for e-mail newsletters from The New York Review. Update your preferences View in browser The New York Review of Books 207 East 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016-6305   Preferences  |  Unsubscribe