On Monday, December 1st, at 7 p.m., NYRB Classics editor Edwin Frank will be in conversation with translator Marian Schwartz about the lasting appeal of Russian literature to translators, editors, and new audiences. The panelists will discuss the new NYRB Classics edition of Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, as well as Marian Schwartz’s translation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, published by Yale University Press. Translator and PEN World Voices co-founder Esther Allen will moderate.

The discussion is a part of Read Russia’s Russian Literature Week, and a reception will follow. For more information and to view more Russian Literature Week events, visit the Read Russia website.

On Thursday, November 20, at 7 p.m., Last Words from Montmartre translator Ari Larissa Heinrich will discuss Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin’s final work at Bluestockings bookstore, located at 172 Allen Street, New York.

For further information, visit the Bluestockings website.

On Tuesday, November 18, at 7 p.m., join NYRB Classics and Brooklyn by the Book in celebrating Stoner, the international best seller by John Williams. Critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn, poet and memoirist Honor Moore, and novelist Ruth Rendell will discuss the incredible—and still-growing—resurgence of the novel’s popularity. Writer and literary critic Liesl Schillinger will moderate the evening.

The panel will be held in the Dweck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza. This is a free event, though reservations are strongly encouraged, and seating is first-come, first-served. Visit the Brooklyn by the Book event page to RSVP here.

On Monday, November 10, at 1:30 p.m., Fritz Stern and Elisabeth Sifton will discuss their book, No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler, at the Central Queens Y, 67-09 108th Street, Queens.

For more information, visit the Central Queens Y website.

Celebrate Jewish Book Month with Ruchama King Feuerman, author of In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, a novel set in Jerusalem that tells the story of two expatriate Americans—a kabbalist’s assistant and a beautiful motorcycle-riding woman—and an Arab janitor, whose lives become intertwined in a variety of ways in the courtyard of an elderly kabbalist and his wife.

Ruchama King Feuerman will discuss In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist at the following events:

The Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Book & Arts Fair

Tuesday, November 4th, 10 a.m. Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

The Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton Cultural Arts and Book Fest

Wednesday, November 5th, 7 p.m. Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton 525 Versailles Drive, Dayton, OH

The Dallas Jewish Book Fest

Tuesday, November 11th, at 7 p.m. The Aaron Family Jewish Community Center of Dallas 7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX

Congregation Agudath Israel of West Essex

Sunday, November 16, at 10 a.m. 20 Academy Road, Caldwell, NJ

Stroum Jewish Community Center

Thursday, November 20th, at 7:30 p.m. 2618 NE 80th Street, Seattle, WA

Congregation Beth Israel

Sunday, November 23rd, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Pollin Chapel, Schnitzer Family Center 1972 NW Flanders Portland, OR

On Monday, November 3rd, at 7 p.m., join Darryl Pinckney at the Harvard Bookstore (1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA) for a pre-election discussion of his new book, Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy, a reflection on a century and a half of black participation in US electoral politics. The event is co-sponsored by The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard. For more information, visit the Harvard Book Store event page.

On Thursday, November 13th, at 6:30 p.m., Darryl Pinckney will give a talk about Blackballed at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore as a part of the Brown Lecture Series. The lecture will be in the Poe Room of the Central Library, located at 400 Cathedral Street. For more information visit the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s website.

On Saturday, November 1st, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., join author and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books Ian Buruma at the 25th Chicago Humanities Festival, where he will discuss his new collection of essays, Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War.

The event is part of the Bill and Penny Obenshain Program on Global Affairs. For more information and tickets, visit the Chicago Humanities Festival website.