Nicholas Lemann — Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries
Nicholas Lemann traces his family's history across three centuries in a sweeping exploration of place, identity, and American belonging, with Franklin Foer.
Date & Time at 7:00 PM EST
Location Politics and Prose Washington, US
Organizer Politics and Prose
Why we picked this
Lemann — one of the best nonfiction writers of his generation — turns his reporting instincts on his own family, and the result is a meditation on what 'home' means across centuries of American displacement.
Nicholas Lemann, former dean of Columbia Journalism School and author of The Promised Land, turns inward with a multi-generational family history that spans three centuries of American life. He’ll be in conversation with Franklin Foer, himself no stranger to writing about identity and belonging.
The book is both deeply personal and broadly resonant — a search for home that doubles as a history of American migration, displacement, and the persistence of place. Lemann’s gift has always been finding the national story inside the local one.