Part of our Voices of Today Series “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." -Mark Twain Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness follows five Black women—Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia—over two transformative decades as they navigate the messy, […]
Friday January 30 at 6 PM Saturday January 31 at 1 PM People in the Victorian Era knew what greeting card companies these days have forgotten: emotions are complicated–especially love! Any candy heart or last-minute card can say “Be mine,” but using the Victorian language of flowers, you can send more complex sentiments like “Have confidence in me […]
Friday January 30 at 6 PM Saturday January 31 at 1 PM People in the Victorian Era knew what greeting card companies these days have forgotten: emotions are complicated–especially love! Any candy heart or last-minute card can say “Be mine,” but using the Victorian language of flowers, you can send more complex sentiments like “Have confidence in me […]
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning author Joseph O’Neill investigates the legacy of colonialism in the context of family love, global capitalism, and sport in his novel Godwin. Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and raised in the United Kingdom, […]
A tour of the house filled with haunted history, dark tales and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spirits. The Mark Twain House has been featured on Syfy Channel's Ghost Hunters and the Biography Channel's My Ghost Story, NPR's Where We Live, and the West London Witch Podcast. On these tours participants will hear about these […]
Monday, March 16, 2026 | 7:00 PM Presented in collaboration with the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Join us for an evening with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning historian and author of How to Be an Antiracist, as he discusses his powerful new book, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age. In Chain of Ideas, Kendi […]