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Plato and the Tyrant
Saturday, September 20, 2:00 PM at the Norfolk Library Acclaimed historian James Romm, author of Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of...


Sargent’s Greatest Patron
Friday, October 3, 4:00 PM at the Norfolk Library Jean Strouse, author of Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers , and...


The Brendan Gill Lecture
Friday, October 3, 6:00 PM at the Norfolk Library Spanning two decades, Shred Sisters is an intimate and bittersweet story exploring...


Farther Than We Can See . . .
Bestselling authors Hampton Sides, author of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Voyage of Captain James...


Worthy and Unworthy Lives
Distinguished historians Dagmar Herzog, author of The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century , and Sophia...


American Whim
Caleb Smith, author of Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture , talks with Jennifer Fleissner, author of Maladies...
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