The Vault

Nicholas Lemann is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a professor of journalism at Columbia. He is the author of four ... Read more

In 2006, Jennifer Michael Hecht spoke to the Institute about her book, The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is... Read more

Ian Buruma is the author, co-author and editor of over a dozen books. He has been an editor at the Far Eastern Economic ... Read more

In April 2014, David Bromwich spoke at the Institute about his forthcoming book, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: ... Read more

In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear a 2011 talk by Deirdre Bair about the artist Saul Steinberg. Bair re... Read more

Robert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen postmodern novels, incl... Read more

In 1979, sociologist and NYIH founder Richard Sennett, and philosopher Michel Foucault, discussed the connections betwee... Read more

In 1982, the Institute held a multi day discussion of censorship. In this session from the Vault, sociologist Richard Se... Read more

In 1983, ten years after W. H. Auden’s death, the New York Institute for the Humanities organized a series of readings a... Read more

This episode from the Vault is a lecture by May Berenbaum about why insects are so scary. Professor Berenbaum is an Amer... Read more