Author Kevin Nguyen and TNR’s literary editor, Laura Marsh, discuss Kevin’s debut novel, New Waves. Livestreamed on April 30 from 7p.m. to 8p.m.
Kevin Nguyen dives into the New York City tech world in New Waves, his wry, edgy debut novel, as he follows Margo, one start-up’s sole black employee, and Lucas, a low-paid Asian service rep, who decide to steal their company’s user database in an attempt at revenge. The heist takes a sudden turn when Margo dies in a car accident, and Lucas is left reeling, wondering what to do with their secret—and whether her death really was an accident. When Lucas hacks into Margo’s computer looking for answers, he is drawn into her secret online life and realizes just how little he knew about his best friend.
With a fresh voice, biting humor, and piercing observations about human nature, Kevin Nguyen brings an insider’s knowledge of the tech industry to this imaginative novel. A pitch-perfect exploration of race and start-up culture, secrecy and surveillance, social media and friendship, New Waves asks: How well do we really know each other? And how do we form true intimacy and connection in a tech-obsessed world?
Note: This is a FREE ZOOM event. You will be notified ONE DAY before the event with the LINK TO CONNECT to the event. Stay well!
In celebration of the premiere of the new documentary based on Thomas Piketty’s Capitalin the Twenty-First Century.
The New Republic and Kino Lorber Present a virtual roundtable discussion.
Livestreamed on May 3 at 3 p.m.
Featuring:
Thomas Piketty, Economist, Author of Capitalin the Twenty-First Century and Capital and Ideology, Professor at EHESS and the Paris School of Economics.
Gillian Tett, Chair of the Editorial Board and Editor-at-Large (US) of the Financial Times, Co-Founder of Moral Money
Ian Bremmer, Global Political Risk Advisor, President and Founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media
Moderated by: Chris Lehmann–Editor, The New Republic
Note: This is a FREE ZOOM event. You will be notified ONE DAY before the event with the LINK TO CONNECT to the event. Stay well!
About the Film
Capital in the Twenty-First Century is being released on May 1 in “virtual cinemas” that directly support independent theaters temporarily closed due to COVID-19. Find your local theater to support here: kinomarquee.com/capital
Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty (which sold over three million copies worldwide and landed Piketty on Time's list of most influential people), this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today’s growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world’s most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into our future.
