Talks
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CHILLING TALE Benjamin Cardozo School of Law presents a screening and panel discussion of Alistair Leyland and Brooke Goldstein’s “The Making of a Martyr,” a series of candid interviews with the families of Palestinian Arab child suicide bombers and the terrorist leaders of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. A Harvard Law School professor, Alan Dershowitz, and a professor of Iranian studies, Hamid Dabashi, are featured panelists. Tonight, 6 p.m., Cardozo, 55 Fifth Ave., between 12th and 13th streets, 212-790-0200, free.
ECLECTIC FLAVOR The Goethe-Institut New York and the New School present a discussion and reading by five international authors: Thomas Meinecke, Hana Andronikova, Sandro Veronesi, Andrés Barba, and Bruce Bégout. A director of the Writing Program at the New School, Robert Polito, is moderator of the discussion. Tonight, 7 p.m.,Theresa Lang Center, 55 W. 13th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 2nd floor, 212-439-8693, free.
A WOMAN’S WORTH The Whitney Museum of Art presents the “Walter Annenberg Annual Lecture: Lorna Simpson,” a conversation with the artist whose innovative use of photography frequently alludes to slavery and the black experience in America. Tonight, 7 p.m., Whitney Museum, 945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street, 212-570-3676, free with registration. For complete information, go to whitney.org.
RUSSIAN PRINCE The 92nd Street Y presents a conversation with Gary Shteyngart, who reads from his novel “Absurdistan” (Random House), about an obese 30-year-old Russian heir to a post-Soviet fortune who is desperate to gain an American passport.The editor in chief of MyJewishLearning.com, Daniel Septimus, is moderator of the event. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-415-5500, $20.
