Book Culture Blog

Our events program is on a brief hiatus this week — a spring break breather. We’ll be back with updated programming news next week. In the meantime, here are photos from some other events that took place recently at Book Culture:

Columbia professor John Fabian Witt (left) and Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett discussed Professor Burnett’s new book, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature.

Columbia Professor Joseph Slaughter (second from left), participated in a panel discussion about his book, Human Rights Inc., with Fordham University Press moderator Helen Tartar (far left) and respondents Roger Berkowitz (Bard) and Marianne Hirsch (Columbia).

Joie Jager-Hyman answered audience questions about the college admission process during an event for her new book Fat Envelope Frenzy: One Year, Five Promising Students, and the Pursuit of the Ivy League Prize.

Psychoanalyst Michael Eigen discussed his latest book, Conversations with Michael Eigen.