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City Lights welcomes Deepak Unnikrishnan in conversation with Shanthi Sekaran in celebrating his new award winning novel, Temporary People from Restless Books. In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80% of the population. Brought in to construct the Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Logic‘s founding editors, Ben Tarnoff, Moira Weigel, Jim Fingal, Christa Hartsock and Logic contributors Tim Hwang, Miriam Posner, and Conrad Amenta, in telling the story of technology. City Lights celebrates their very first issue! Logic is a new Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Yiyun Li in celebrating the release of her new book, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life published by Random House. In her first nonfiction book, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores a Read More ...

City Lights welcomes L.A. Kauffman to discuss her new book Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism from Verso Press. Direct Action is a vibrant, groundbreaking history of American radicalism since the Sixties. What happened to the American Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Rachel Aspden! She discusses her new book, Generation Revolution:  On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East, from Other Press. In 2011 during the Arab Spring, the government of Egypt transformed from a Read More ...

City Lights welcomes back Joyce Carol Oates, who reads from her new novel A Book of American Martyrs from Ecco Press. A BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS intimately links the stories of two very different families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Read More ...

Editor Krista Halverson and guest speakers celebrate the release of Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart, published by Shakespeare and Company Paris and edited with introduction by Krista Halverson. Foreword by Read More ...

Sarah Jaffe in conversation with Suzie Cagle at City Lights Bookstore celebrating the release of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt from Nation Books. Necessary Trouble is the definitive book on the movements that are poised to permanently remake American politics. Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Jim Nisbet to celebrate the paperback release of The Syracuse Codex, published by the Overlook Press. Over the course of the last decade, The Overlook Press has brought into print, in quality paperback editions, the majority of Read More ...

City Lights welcomes John Freeman in celebrating the release of Freeman’s: Family: The Best New Writing on Family, published by Grove Press. Joining him is essayist and journalist Garnette Cadogan. The second issue of a new anthology from renowned literary Read More ...