{"title": "Book Launch: Americans Without Borders by Julia Harte in conversation with Dale Maharidge", "start": "2026-10-28T19:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "PowerHouse Arena", "address": "Adams Street 28, 11201 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powerhousebookstores/book-launch-americans-without-borders-by-julia-harte-in-conversation-with-dale-maharidge", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/politics", "literature"], "description": "A book launch for 'Americans Without Borders' by investigative journalist Julia Harte, held in conversation with Dale Maharidge. Harte, who covers U.S. national affairs and the Justice Department for Reuters, traces two centuries of Americans who joined liberation movements abroad and were then branded radicals by their own government. Beginning with the death of her father's second cousin, Trotsky's bodyguard Sheldon Harte, the book profiles figures from fighters in the 19th-century Greek revolution to solidarity volunteers in Palestine. Maharidge, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and emeritus professor at Columbia's journalism school, will interview her.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-launch-americans-without-borders-by-julia-harte-in-conv-54910/", "official_url": "https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-americans-without-borders-by-julia-harte-in-conversation-with-dale-maharidge/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c014ccad73e8a59ba8e6f973198254d869c13f00128fff63fdb3a42d85507115-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-28T19:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "PowerHouse Arena", "address": "Adams Street 28, 11201 Brooklyn", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Mona Chalabi: Ten Lives w/ Jia Tolentino", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "11 USD", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": "11.00", "tickets_url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/offsite-mona-chalabi-ten-lives-w-jia-tolentino/100002002315615908", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/inequality", "literature"], "description": "An evening book event, an offsite presentation of 'Ten Lives' with a conversation between its author and a writer. 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Readers also collectively suggest an actionable call, such as an organization to donate to or ways to confront injustice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/rally-reading-series-kevin-nguyen-ey-zhao-and-aurora-huiza-54772/", "official_url": "https://www.rallyreadingseries.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/226c8e2824c45fda2e26adf58d053203a092cd9561ebc4d5b7c9975d16da416a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Rozina Ali discuss Crossing the Red Line & Seasons of Fury", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "An evening of conversation at the bookstore Books Are Magic on Smith Street in Brooklyn. Journalists Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Rozina Ali discuss the books Crossing the Red Line and Seasons of Fury. 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