Ruby Wax is what you call a multitalent: she is a successful interviewer, comedian, actress, script editor, and author. Despite her success, she’s been open about her struggles with depression. Her book Sane New World is based on her personal experience. It achieves the rare feat of addressing mental illness while being both readable and funny.
In this 5-part blog series, author and columnist Pia de Jong shares what she encounters in her daily life as a recent ex-expat after having lived in the US for 10 years. Did the Netherlands change or is she perhaps more ‘Americanized’ then she thought?
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ITA present Lehman Trilogy, a three-act play by Italian novelist and playwright Stefano Massini. It follows the lives of three immigrant brothers as they arrive in America and found an investment firm, the collapse of their company in 2008 and the financial crisis which followed. Click here for dates and tickets.
Slate’s podcast series Slow Burn about Roe v. Wade won the 2022 Apple Podcasts Award. The four-episode season explores the events leading up to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision. Host Susan Matthews will join the John Adams for a free livestream about the podcast on December 15th. Click here for more info.