Скачать или смотреть 2022 Decades Ball: What Is History?

The Decades Ball is the annual gala event presented by Lapham’s Quarterly. Guests are treated to performances of timeless readings by celebrated actors and performers amid rousing company the New York Times compared to “dedicated revelers at a Gatsby party.”

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This year’s Decades Ball takes up the theme “What Is History?” and included by:

Actor Bob Balaban (A Mighty Wind, The French Dispatch) reading Voltaire, from Encyclopédie, and Jacob Burckhardt, from Judgments on History and Historians
Actress Rebecca Hall (Parade’s End, writer and director of Passing) reading W.H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”
Actor Richard Kind (A Serious Man, Curb Your Enthusiasm) reading Aristotle, from Poetics; Du Fu, “Jade-Blossom Palace”; and Finley Peter Dunne, from Observations by Mr. Dooley
Actor and singer-songwriter Reeve Carney (Penny Dreadful, Hadestown) reads Dorothy Thompson, from “Who Goes Nazi?"
Actor Morgan Spector (The Gilded Age, The Plot Against America) reads Will and Ariel Durant, from The Lessons of History
Actor and director Reggie D. White (The Inheritance) reading W.E.B. Du Bois, from Black Reconstruction in America
Christopher Lloyd and Alec Baldwin reading Richard Nixon and John Ehrlichman, from White House Tape 498-005
We will also award the Janus Prize to author Hilary Mantel.

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